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What's the Worst AI Can Do? This Team Is Finding Out.

What's the Worst AI Can Do? This Team Is Finding Out.

Update: 2025-01-142
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How close is artificial intelligence to building a catastrophic bioweapon or causing other superhuman damage? WSJ's Sam Schechner reports on the team at Anthropic testing for AI dangers. And the team leader, Logan Graham, explains how the tests work. 




Further Listening:


-Artificial: The OpenAI Story 


-The Big Changes Tearing OpenAI Apart 




Further Reading:


-Their Job Is to Push Computers Toward AI Doom 


-AI Startup Anthropic Raising Funds Valuing It at $60 Billion 


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