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Dr. Ashish Jja, a biosecurity expert from Harvard's Belfer Center, discusses Anthropic's report on the efforts to prevent misuse of AI in designing biological weapons. The report highlights incidents where Anthropic's Claude models were blocked from being used by malicious actors, which Dr. Jha finds "pretty concerning."
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Dr. Ashish Jha, the founder of BioRadar and a senior fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center, recently discussed an Anthropic report on CBSNews. The report highlighted how Anthropic had prevented malicious individuals from using its AI model Claude to design biological weapons, which Jha found "pretty concerning." This indicates that while safeguards exist, there remains a significant risk of misuse for harmful purposes in the realm of artificial intelligence and biosecurity.

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Dr. Ashish Jha, founder of BioRadar and a senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center, joins to discuss Anthropic's recent report about how it blocked bad actors from using its Claude models to design biological weapons.
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Dr. Ashish Jha, founder of BioRadar and a senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center, joins to discuss Anthropic's recent report about how it blocked bad actors from using its Claude models to design biological weapons. asserted
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