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Four lab chiefs ask Congress to mandate synthetic DNA screening
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Hassabis, Altman, Amodei and Suleyman signed an open letter urging Congress to mandate customer screening for synthetic DNA and to screen the synthesis equipment itself, warning that AI now outperforms PhD-level virologists.
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