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Claude Found a Mysterious CRISPR-Like System—but Anthropic Can’t Say What It’s Capable of

Anthropic said Claude AI has identified a previously unknown enzyme system that looks remarkably like CRISPR’s gene-editing Cas9. But looks can be deceiving.

Tarun Mottlia

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Claude Found a Mysterious CRISPR-Like System—but Anthropic Can’t Say What It’s Capable of
Image: Anthropic posted a short video of its researchers working in its previously undisclosed AI-powered biology lab along with the new announcement. Credit: Anthropic

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei managed to piggyback a little corporate self-promotion onto his address to the United Nations Security Council this Wednesday, warning of the apocalyptic risks that the AI race between his own firm and its competitors pose to “humanity as a whole.”

Anthropic’s Claude has reportedly discovered a previously unknown enzyme system similar in its architecture to the Cas9 enzyme system that makes CRISPR gene-editing possible, Amodei announced in a lengthy X post just mere minutes before the…

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