Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation

OpenAI Blog · 2 years ago

Researchers created an evaluation framework to assess whether large language models could help someone develop biological threats, testing GPT-4 with biology experts and students. The testing found GPT-4 provided at most a mild accuracy improvement for biological threat creation tasks, a difference too small to be statistically conclusive. The work establishes a baseline methodology for ongoing assessment of LLM biosecurity risks and calls for further investigation across different models and threat scenarios.