OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory announce bioscience research partnership

OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory have announced a partnership to develop safety evaluations for the use of artificial intelligence in laboratory settings. This collaboration aims to assess and measure the biological capabilities and risks associated with multimodal AI models like GPT-4o. The partnership follows a White House Executive Order that tasks national laboratories with evaluating the capabilities of frontier AI models, including biological capabilities.

OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory are working together to study how AI can be used safely by scientists in laboratory settings to advance bioscientific research. This partnership marks a significant step in ensuring that AI innovations translate to advancements in essential areas like healthcare and bioscience.

The collaboration involves developing evaluations to understand how frontier models like GPT-4o can assist humans with performing tasks in a physical laboratory setting through multimodal capabilities like vision and voice. This includes biological safety evaluations for GPT-4o and its currently unreleased real-time voice systems to understand how they could be used to support scientific research.

The partnership emphasizes the critical importance of private and public sector collaboration in both leveraging innovation and ensuring safety. As the capabilities of AI models continue to rapidly improve, this cooperative effort aims to set new standards for AI safety and efficacy in the sciences, paving the way for future innovations that benefit humanity.

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