A new study shows a simple way to make AI safer from bioweapon risks

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What if stopping AI from helping someone build a biological weapon was as simple as never teaching it how?

That question had long intrigued Stella Biderman, executive director of the grassroots nonprofit research lab Eleuther AI. In collaboration with the British government’s AI Security Institute, and lead authors Kyle O’Brien and Stephen Casper, Biderman set out to find the answer — something that had never been explored in public before.

In a new paper, Deep Ignorance , the researchers found that filtering risky information out of an AI model’s training data from the start can “bake in” safeguards that are hard