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Five attempts to use Anthropic's AI systems for purposes related to biological weapons development, each deliberately disguised, are the subject of a new disclosure from the startup.
In all five cases, Anthropic says it blocked the attempt. The constraint this disclosure addresses The hardest case in biosecurity-focused AI safety is the request that does not announce itself.
Anthropic's disclosure, covering five separate incidents, describes actors who worked to conceal what they were actually after, attempting to operate in the gap between stated research intent and underlying goal.
The company's own language is precise on two points: actors "circumvented controls," and they made efforts to "obfuscate" the purpose of their research.
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