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		nopinsight 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AIs Are Disseminating Expert-Level Virology Skills "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

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