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

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2024-01-31T08:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Models affected: GPT-4
- Source: https://openai.com/index/building-an-early-warning-system-for-llm-aided-biological-threat-creation
- Record: https://forck.live/items/810-building-an-early-warning-system-for-llm-aided-biological-threat-creation

OpenAI is developing a blueprint for evaluating the risk that an LLM could aid in creating a biological threat. An evaluation with GPT-4 found at most a mild uplift in biological threat creation accuracy, which is not conclusive but serves as a starting point for further research.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/building-an-early-warning-system-for-llm-aided-biological-threat-creation:

> In an evaluation involving both biology experts and students, we found that GPT-4 provides at most a mild uplift in biological threat creation accuracy.

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