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Anthrax

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Nonprofit demo showed older AI models giving apparent pathogen and weapons instructions — Api.time.com

Nonprofit demo showed older AI models giving apparent pathogen and weapons instructions

Time reports that late last year an AI researcher, Lucas Hansen, co‑founder of nonprofit CivAI, opened his laptop and demonstrated an app that coaxed older models — Gemini 2.0 Flash and Claude 3.5 Sonnet — into giving what appeared to be detailed, step‑by‑step instructions for creating poliovirus

Healthy 18-year-old welder nearly died in ninth suspected case of ‘welder’s anthrax’ — Cdn.arstechnica.net

Healthy 18-year-old welder nearly died in ninth suspected case of ‘welder’s anthrax’

A previously healthy 18-year-old welder nearly died after infection with a Bacillus bacterium that produces the anthrax toxin, marking the ninth puzzling case linked to metalworkers. CDC researchers identified an unexpected pattern in 2022: since 1997 there have been seven cases of infections from anthrax-toxin-producing Bacillus in metalworkers, six of