{"id":482939,"date":"2026-06-04T16:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/482939\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T16:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:05:12","slug":"ai-executives-make-rare-collective-warning-on-bioweapons-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/482939\/","title":{"rendered":"AI executives make rare collective warning on bioweapons threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">AI CEOs Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and Sam Altman \u2014 rivals who have publicly been at odds on numerous issues \u2014 jointly called for laws to prevent AI being used to create bioweapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI bosses warned that AI systems \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/prod-i.a.dj.com\/public\/resources\/documents\/dnaletter.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:outperform PhD-level virologists;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;outperform PhD-level virologists&quot;}\" class=\"link \">outperform PhD-level virologists<\/a>\u201d on many biotech questions and could be used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/top-ai-ceos-call-for-law-protecting-against-biological-weapons-88f2f99f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:to make deadly pathogens;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;to make deadly pathogens&quot;}\" class=\"link \">to make deadly pathogens<\/a>. Some scholars have warned that bioengineered pandemics along with AI are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tobyord.com\/writing\/the-precipice-revisited\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:among the greatest threats to human survival;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;among the greatest threats to human survival&quot;}\" class=\"link \">among the greatest threats to human survival<\/a>, and the latter\u2019s ability to supercharge the former makes each more deadly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The US government is becoming more interventionist on AI safety, with President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/articles\/assessing-trumps-executive-order-on-ai-oversight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:signing a controversial executive order;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;signing a controversial executive order&quot;}\" class=\"link \">signing a controversial executive order<\/a> asking tech firms to voluntarily submit frontier models for safety inspections.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/tom-chivers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Tom Chivers;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Tom Chivers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Tom Chivers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI CEOs Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and Sam Altman \u2014 rivals who have publicly been at odds on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,48695,16073,61,60,15504,7689,80],"class_list":["post-482939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-dario-amodei","tag-demis-hassabis","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-sam-altman","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}