I wouldn’t read too far into that. Claude has busted me down to Haiku multiple times for asking middle school level genetics and biology questions. It’s silly fast about deciding you might be al qaeda.

I’m a thoroughly average guy. I’m not capable of asking competent supervillain questions.

And Anthropic said they couldn’t say if any of the “bioweapon” safeguards went off on nefarious efforts. I’m probably in those numbers.

So read it as marketing more than something to lose sleep over. They’re mostly gating stuff a sufficiently motivated person would find with a library card.

Non-zero chance if LLMs have access to the data required to make a bioweapon a regular person can do so too. Non-zero chance every second a meteor could hit you.

How about developing counters to said bioweapons? That capability should be commoditized too, IMO.

You could say the same thing about libraries and education.

Coming straight from the Anthropic marketing department