🇺🇸 The people building artificial intelligence are warning Congress that their own technology could help criminals create biological weapons.
In a rare show of unity, the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, along with the AI chiefs of Microsoft and Meta, signed a letter urging lawmakers to require safeguards on synthetic DNA and RNA orders.
They warn that the knowledge barriers which have long kept bad actors from building bioweapons could "meaningfully erode" as AI grows more capable.
Their fix is to force suppliers of synthetic genetic material to screen orders for dangerous combinations and verify buyers are legitimate.
Rivals who agree on almost nothing, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei among them, all lined up behind it.
When the architects of a technology start lobbying to be regulated, it's worth paying attention.
Source: Wall Street Journal