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Anthropic sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program

• bcks 10d ago
  What could go wrong?
  • jimmiles 10d ago
    "The startup wants to push how its Claude AI can direct robotic units to carry out science experiments with limited human intervention..." Why? Why??? Isn't this one area you'd want extreme human intervention? I'm not against trying out new research tools. I just wonder why you'd want to allow the tools to work autonomously?
    • fwlr 10d ago
      So that you can get rid of all the expensive human lab techs
    • alyeska2 10d ago
      > Why? Why??? To find cures for diseases faster, find new ways to produce useful chemicals, find ways to make crops resilient against changing climate, etc > Isn't this one area you'd want extreme human intervention? No? There are an essentially infinite number of potentially useful experiments that could be run that have no risk or downside. It's not like they're doing this in a BSL-4 lab mutating smallpox.
• strange_quark 10d ago
  Crazy to get confirmation that the “we’re so scared” rhetoric was 100% bullshit in less than a weeks’ time.