Anthropic Quietly Built a Wet Lab Where Claude Directs Robots in Biology Experiments
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-09-18
According to the post, Anthropic has quietly built a wet lab where Claude directs robots running physical biology experiments — stopping just short of clinical trials — with drug discovery as the goal.
The author is torn: all for AI-driven drug discovery, but points out that Anthropic itself has flagged AI + biology as one of the top paths to catastrophic bioweapon risk, yet is now accelerating exactly that, and jokes about waiting for the safety blog post justifying it.
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