Anthropic adviser says it's "not hypothetical" that AI could abet biological weapons risk

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Ben Buchanan, a Johns Hopkins professor and adviser to AI company Anthropic, warned that artificial intelligence poses a genuine, not theoretical, risk of facilitating biological weapons development. Speaking alongside Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under Trump, Buchanan discussed the question of whether government should regulate AI and how such oversight might work. The conversation underscores growing concern among security experts that AI capabilities could be weaponized in ways that demand regulatory attention, even as the specific mechanisms remain evolving.