Anthropic quietly built its own wet biology lab pairing Claude with real experiments, Reuters reports
mark_k · x · 2026-09-19
Reuters reports that Anthropic has quietly built its own wet biology lab, combining Claude with real-world biological experiments. markk highlights the irony: Anthropic has spent years warning that advanced AI could create catastrophic biological risks and may need slowing down — yet now runs the risky work itself, prompting the jab that 'AI is dangerous when others develop it, but perfectly safe when Anthropic controls it.'
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