AIs Are Disseminating Expert-Level Virology Skills

by nopinsighton 4/22/2025, 3:28 PMwith 1 comments

by nopinsighton 4/22/2025, 3:31 PM

"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