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AIs Are Disseminating Expert-Level Virology Skills

by nopinsight on 4/22/25, 3:28 PM with 1 comments

• by nopinsight on 4/22/25, 3:31 PM

  "Can AI meaningfully help with bioweapons creation? On our new Virology Capabilities Test (VCT), frontier LLMs display the expert-level tacit knowledge needed to troubleshoot wet lab protocols."

  OpenAI’s o3 now outperforms 94% of expert virologists." -- thread by a co-author, https://x.com/DanHendrycks/status/1914696657813561799

  Paper: Virology Capabilities Test (VCT): A Multimodal Virology Q&A Benchmark

  https://www.virologytest.ai/vct_paper.pdf