Claude 未能造出蝎子抗毒血清：Citrini 与 Anthropic 的药物研发实验
Claude did not invent scorpion antivenom
投资研究公司 Citrini Research 与 Anthropic 合作，用未发布版本的 Claude 尝试从零开发蝎子抗毒血清，结果未能造出实际药物，只得到一些有前景的起点。Citrini 承认团队无人真正了解 AI 与生物学的关联，该实验因触及 Claude 的生物安全护栏而转向与 Anthropic 合作。
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Claude did not invent scorpion antivenom
Citrini takes a stab at drug development.
Citrini takes a stab at drug development.
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is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and a Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes.
An investment research firm wanted to prove AI could revolutionize drug development. So they teamed up with Anthropic to see whether an unreleased version of Claude could make scorpion antivenom. It couldn’t. It came up with some promising starting points, but nothing close to an actual drug, experts tell The Verge.
Citrini Research, the firm behind the experiment, admitted that “none of us could claim to know anything about AI as it related to biology.” That didn’t stop it from trying to make a drug from scratch — or publishing a blog post titled “We Wanted to Use Claude to Create a New Drug. Here’s What Happened.” The account came complete with rhetorical questions like “Why don’t we try to use AI to create a new drug?”, a blow-by-blow account of its amateurish scientific adventures, and a quote from Charles Darwin.
If the name Citrini sounds familiar, that’s because the firm was behind a widely circulated piece of fiction imagining an AI-induced economic catastrophe that gained traction on social media and rattled real-world markets. It also claims to have visited the Strait of Hormuz in April to get a firsthand perspective on what was happening in the volatile region.
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For its latest venture, Citrini enlisted the help of Anthropic, which, mere weeks out from its hotly anticipated IPO, has a few reasons to talk up AI’s potential in drug development and the life sciences — two areas it’s actively pursuing.
The collaboration came about after Citrini ran into Claude’s biosecurity guardrails while trying to get the model to research drug candidates.
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