Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and other tech leaders are urging the US government to make screening of synthetic DNA orders a legal requirement. AI systems already outperform PhD-level virologists on lab procedures, the signatories warn, raising the risk of misuse for biological weapons.
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