Safety & Security · Sun 8 Nov

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Sunday 8 November

AI will soon master biology, unleashing new safety risks: Tencent AI chief

AI-generated summary Tencent Holdings chief AI scientist Vinces Yao Shunyu stated that frontier artificial intelligence models could soon master biology and accelerate drug discovery while posing serious safety risks. Yao noted during a public appearance that the biological capabilities of these systems will reach a threshold where it becomes possible to create new bioweapons and start a pandemic.

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