Stronger AI models raise biological risks, researchers warn

AI safety researchers argue that more capable models will bring higher biological risks, with the direction undisputed even as magnitude is debated. They urge stronger biosecurity, citing COVID's roughly 7 million deaths in two years as evidence that defenses lag behind.

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