STAT+: Anthropic’s Claude Science is coming for Kendall Square

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This is the year artificial intelligence has emerged in the public square as a full-fledged bogeyman. College grads boo commencement speakers who invoke AI as the modern equivalent of “plastics,” the career advice given to Dustin Hoffman’s character in the 1967 film “The Graduate.” Workers recoil when companies wield it as a cost-cutting, job-slashing sword. Even a wary Pope Leo XIV warns against the fusion of AI into nuclear war-fighting systems. So this month’s low-key unveiling of Claude Science, an app that adapts Anthropic’s large language model for biopharma research labs, was a timely reminder that AI still has the potential to do more than reduce corporate head counts and endanger civilization. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…