Why do we take LLMs seriously as a potential source of biorisk?

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. 

Original text: https://red.anthropic.com/2025/biorisk/ 

Author(s): Anthropic

A podcast by BlueDot Impact.

Chapters

• 3:04 What does AI have to do with dangerous weapons at all?
• 4:12 Why focus on biorisk?
• 7:42 Is an LLM’s knowledge useful in an applied scenario?
• 10:39 Ok, but we’ve been talking about information. How does this translate to an actual lab?
• 13:31 What can be done to address biorisk?