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Top executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Microsoft AI, and Meta, alongside biosecurity experts, sent a joint letter to US Congress urging mandatory regulation of synthetic DNA and RNA orders. They warn that advanced AI could enable malicious actors to create biological weapons, highlighting urgent biosecurity concerns.[AI generated]
Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?
The article highlights a credible future risk where AI could be used maliciously to create biological weapons, which would cause harm to health (a). The event involves AI system development and use potentially enabling such threats, but no incident of harm has yet occurred. The call for safeguards is a governance response to this plausible risk. Therefore, this is best classified as an AI Hazard, as it concerns plausible future harm from AI-enabled misuse in biotechnology.[AI generated]