Tag: safety
2 discussions across 1 post tagged "safety".
AI Signal - April 28, 2026
- The companies building the most powerful AI in history are also the ones deciding what counts as 'safe.' r/ArtificialInteligence Score: 276
A critical examination of AI safety governance, arguing that the organizations building frontier AI systems (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) are also the primary voices defining safety standards and advising governments. The pharmaceutical analogy highlights the conflict of interest: we wouldn't accept drug companies self-regulating, yet AI development lacks independent oversight.
- Stanford researchers fed a language model a DNA sequence and asked it to create a new virus r/OpenAI Score: 835
Stanford researchers used a language model to generate novel viral DNA sequences, with 16 out of hundreds of generated sequences producing functional viruses. One used a protein that doesn't exist in any known organism on Earth, demonstrating LLMs' ability to generate genuinely novel biological designs. This raises important biosecurity questions.