Tencent AI chief warns of AI bioweapons, seeks middle ground

tencent's chief ai scientist vinces yao shunyu warns that ai will soon be capable of developing bioweapons, and neither fully open nor fully closed models can solve this problem on their own. yao, formerly at openai, argues for a mix of open-source and closed-source models to let everyone use the technology for defense. he cites a hacking incident at hugging face where an open chinese model glm-5.2 was used to parse logs after closed us models refused to analyze attack commands due to safety filters. anthropic's ceo dario amodei pushes back against the claim that open models benefit defenders more than attackers, arguing they're potentially riskier. tencent plans to release its new model hy4 as an open-weight model with a safety report.