Policy & Safety2 min
Tencent's AI chief warns of biology risks as it readies an open Hy4 model
Yao Shunyu says AI's biology abilities will soon reach a harmful threshold; Tencent says its new Hy4 model was trained to limit misuse before its weights are released.
- Tencent's chief AI scientist Yao Shunyu said AI models' biology abilities will soon reach a threshold where they could cause harm, the SCMP reported.
- He urged Chinese companies releasing open models to take safety very seriously, while arguing for a mix of open and closed models.
- Tencent says Hy4's cybersecurity training was limited to defensive material, and that its testing found the model could not meaningfully make harmful biology experiments easier.