Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big
Anthropic says Claude discovered a CRISPR-like enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA during a short Bay Area lab search.
Anthropic said its Bay Area wet lab, using Claude, identified a previously unknown enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA with properties reminiscent of CRISPR, including cutting, copying, and pasting DNA. CEO Dario Amodei said the search took about 21 hours, roughly 950 agents, and 210 million tokens, while noting a Stanford team previously found a partly similar system. Physical experiments were performed by human scientists at BSL-1 and BSL-2, and the lab does not handle human pathogens. Amodei said Claude is not autonomously running experiments today.
- Claude-led search reportedly took 21 hours with about 950 agents.
- Claimed system sits in bacteriophage DNA and resembles CRISPR.
- Amodei said Stanford earlier found a partly similar system.
- Human scientists did all lab work at BSL-1 and BSL-2.
- Claude is not autonomously controlling lab equipment today.
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But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run lose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.
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