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For years, most public discussions around artificial intelligence focused on jobs, misinformation, deepfakes and automation. But a new concern is rapidly climbing to the top of the list, one that even some of the biggest names in the AI industry are warning about: biological weapons. According to a Wall Street Journal report, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis of Google’s DeepMind AI lab and executives from Meta and Microsoft recently set aside their competitive differences to urge US lawmakers to take the risk seriously. Their concern is not that AI will suddenly create a supervirus on its own. Rather, they fear that future AI systems could dramatically lower the barriers for people attempting to develop dangerous biological agents.