The next AI safety fight may actually be about DNA
TL;DR
AI company CEOs Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) disagree on a lot, like how fast the technology should develop, the best way to regulate it, and how to prepare society for smarter-than-human AI, among other things. That makes it all the more remarkable that they — along with 85 other experts in tech, biology, and national security policy — recently signed on to an open letter calling for more robust regulations around gene synthesis.
Nauti's Take
This is not sci-fi panic, it's an infrastructure problem. If models speed up bio-design, prompt safety will not be enough.
AI builders need abuse limits inside tool access, screening, and supply chains, not just polished policy docs.
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