Trump’s AI task force held its inaugural meeting, planning to assess cybersecurity, biosecurity, and model-control risks and promote AI laboratories’ provision of early warnings about security incidents to the government.
X account @frankieislost posted: “we gave claude access to a fully autonomous biofoundry to design, execute, and evaluate experiments in synthetic biology. we are also introducing MirrorBench: a new benchmark that measures progress toward the autonomous creation of self-replicating mirror life.”
According to reports, two Anthropic executives invested in a Peter Thiel-backed biosecurity startup developing hardware for detecting airborne viruses.
