Anthropic loosens Claude's biology safeguards for vetted researchers
X-Risk Daily
Friday 18 September 2026
Biosecurity
Anthropic introduced the Life Sciences Verification Program (LSVP) on 17 September 2026, giving vetted life science professionals access to its Mythos, Opus and Sonnet models under what the company called a refined set of safeguards more permissive for biology-related work.
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