"Annie Jacobsen's New Book 'Biowar' Warns: No AI Needed, Genetic Engineering Alone Is Enough to Create Extinction-Level Threats"

In her new book "Biowar," Annie Jacobsen does not discuss AI, because she believes that scientists today can alter nature and trigger extinction-level disasters with genetic engineering alone. She points out that the barrier to entry for biological weapons is extremely low, "almost anyone can obtain potential pandemic pathogens," making them more likely than nuclear weapons. The article cites Anthropic's abuse report published this month, stating that foreign researchers five times tried to bypass Claude's guardrails to ask "gain-of-function" questions; Anthropic refused to answer and banned the accounts, while acknowledging that such information could also be used to develop vaccines and drugs.