# Anthropic has quietly set up a biology laboratory in the San Francisco Bay Area as it expands its use of artificial intelligence in life sciences. Reuters reports the company is hiring biologists and biochemists and wants to use AI to investigate rare and neglected diseases. The move comes amid earlier warnings that increasingly powerful AI could pose an existential threat to humanity, including by lowering barriers to dangerous biological research. Anthropic says the lab’s main focus is fundamental biology rather than drug discovery, although it has not ruled out other applications.
Anthropic builds biology lab as AI safety fears grow