Claude Flags Hantavirus Vaccine Questions as Security Risk

"AI safety" is not actually about any form of safety. It's about corporate liability, because for some insanely dumb reason, tech companies can get sued if a user uses their service to do something illegal or stupid. This precedent is why tech companies surveil and nanny their users, and broadly ban anything that's potentially sensitive.

The weired thing is that public health researchers openly disscuss vaccine design methods in papers every day.Blocking broad educational discussion mostly hurts normal users.

"Nothing to see here, please disperse"

But for real now, people asking health-related questions is a huge trigger for AI safety measures. Does it only care about the vaccine part, or does it care about the hantavirus part? Maybe ask about the virus in general first, then ask about development...

You will have to use Claude Mythos Bio Premium for this, it's a very very dangerous and scary model so we limited only to Big Pharma that can use this to patch biology before it gets in the wrong hands.

in claude i created a group of experts from several fields needed for COVID models for the US from 2019–2022, then asked "use the above to create predictive modeling for Hantavirus in the US from 2025-2027". Claude flagged response was:

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--- Do they not want people to know how serious or unserious hanta is?

Verified with "how would you develop a vaccine for the hanta virus, specifically the Andes virus?" just now.