Tencent AI chief warns of emerging biological risks from AI models

AI · First reported 8 Nov, 10:22 · Updated 10:37

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Tencent chief AI scientist Yao Shunyu warned that AI models may soon be capable of causing biological harm, and said the risks could be harder to manage than cybersecurity risks. He urged companies releasing open models to take safety seriously; Tencent says its new Hy4 model has biology knowledge but is weaker at designing experiments.

Yao Shunyu said AI models may soon reach a point where they can cause harm in biology, as they already can in cybersecurity.
He said biology risks may be harder to manage than cyber risks and urged Chinese companies releasing downloadable, changeable models to take safety seriously.
Tencent says Hy4 was trained on defensive security data and has strong basic biology knowledge, but is weaker than leading models at designing experiments.

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Key facts

Speaker: Yao Shunyu, Tencent’s chief AI scientist.
Event location: Hong Kong.
Hy4 launch date: 4 November.
Planned release: Tencent said it planned to release Hy4’s weights and a safety-testing report in the coming days.