Will Claude cause the next Covid?

Crossposted from my blog.Biosafety remains a relatively unexplored topic for people within the AI Safety community. This posts aims to briefly summerize current bio-capabilities of available models, as well as mitigation efforts.Current CapabilitiesAi-systems could theoretically uplift non-experts to synthesize, acquire, and disseminate biological weapons and could raise the ceiling of harm by creating agents more deadly or more resistant to current medicine.Biological systems are complex howeve...