A Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway
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·October 15, 2025DEDLINE
This is so awesome. Hoping those in the biology field can comment on the significance.
alganet
I am concerned about this kind of technology being used to circumvent traditional safeguards and international agreements that prevent the development of biological weapons.
vessenes
Well you might be pleased to know that there are large safety teams working at all frontier model companies worried about the same thing! You could even apply if you have related skills.
bix6
I thought openAI gave up on safety when Anthropic splintered off as well as when they engaged ScaleAI to traumatize people for RLHF?
Or Google when they fired Timnit?
jackblemming
Seems like no matter how positive the headline about the technology is, there is invariably someone in the comments pointing out a worst case hypothetical. Is there a name for this phenomenon?
peddling-brink
Rational discourse? Not working for a marketing team? Realism?
OJFord
Pessimism?
collingreen
Not believing everything you read on the internet? Being jaded from constant fluff and lies? Not having gell-mann amnesia?
I get your sentiment of "why you gotta bring down this good thing" but the answer to your actual question is battle scars from the constant barrage of hostile lies and whitewashing we are subject to. It's kind of absurd (and mildly irresponsible) to think "THIS time will be the time things only go well and nobody uses the new thing for something I don't want".
For all the hate that Google (rightly) gets for some of their work in other domains, I appreciate that they continue to put major resources behind using AI to try and save lives in medicine and autonomous driving.
Easy to take for granted, but their peer companies are not doing this type of long term investment.