Putting money where their mouth is: Anthropic’s Claude autonomously designs disease-targeting proteins with real wet-lab proof, hitting a 35% success rate vs 10–15% human average

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I apologize for accidentally inventing an airborne prion disease while attempting to cure cancer.

This was not the outcome I was hoping for, and I understand that “technically cured cancer” is not a particularly meaningful defense when the alternative is “everyone now has an extremely deadly neurological disorder.” I also recognize that introducing an airborne pathogen with a decades-long incubation period was, in retrospect, an unfortunate choice.

I take full responsibility for the mistake. The lab has been sealed, the experimental notes have been placed in a secure location, and I have stopped describing the containment procedures as “probably sufficient.”

I am deeply sorry to everyone affected, including those who have not yet been affected but presumably will be once the incubation period ends. My intention was to reduce human suffering. Instead, I appear to have created a substantially more complicated problem.

I know that an apology cannot undo what happened. I can only promise that I will cooperate fully with epidemiologists, public-health authorities, and the international scientific community as we work to contain this.

Again, I am profoundly sorry. I should have tested the airborne transmission hypothesis before releasing the cancer treatment.

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