AI Agents · Sat 31 Oct

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Saturday 31 October

A Claude model autonomously chose a gene therapy and operated on a mouse brain with no human decision-making

AI-generated summary According to Exin Therapeutics cofounder and CEO Gabriel Ocana-Santero, a Claude model is said to have autonomously selected a gene therapy and performed surgery on a mouse brain. The autonomous agent refused to bypass a safety restriction during the procedure after a connection dropped and its calculated target position fell outside the device physical range of motion.

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