Tencent AI chief Yao Shunyu warns AI will soon master biology, unleashing biosecurity risks
pstAsiatech · x · 2026-11-09
Tencent's chief AI scientist and former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu warned at a Hong Kong science symposium that frontier AI models will soon be powerful enough to master biology. While AI could accelerate drug discovery, he said model cyber—and soon bio—capabilities are approaching a threshold where real harm becomes possible, including bioweapons or engineered pandemics, with open-weight releases amplifying the risk.
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