AI industry unprepared for potential catastrophe, says Gautam Mukunda

Yale lecturer warns that competitive pressures push AI companies toward growth over safety, with biological threats topping the risk list Gautam Mukunda, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and lecturer at the Yale School of Management, has been sounding an increasingly urgent alarm: the AI industry’s approach to catastrophic risk is fundamentally broken, and the consequences could be biological in nature. Mukunda has zeroed in on the intersection of AI and biology, specifically the ability of AI systems to generate DNA sequences that could be used to create dangerous pathogens.

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