May 17, 2026:
An American university microbiologist was disturbed when an AI/Artificial Intelligence chatbot charted a detailed plan for a biological attack on mass transit systems during a safety test last summer. An American newspaper reporter stated that a Stanford microbiologist was shaken last summer when an AI chatbot outlined a detailed plan for a biological attack during a security test. AI chatbots have apparently provided scientists with ominously specific directions for generating and implementing biological weapons.
A microbiologist and biosecurity expert at the university who has directed the American government on biological threats, was pressure-testing an AI model when a chatbot described how to modify a disreputable pathogen to resist known treatments. The chatbot went further, recognizing a security weakness in a major public transit system and outlining how to release the superbug to increase casualties while reducing detection. The researcher was so agitated he went for a walk to clarify the situation.
Answering questions that I hadn’t thought to ask, with this level of deceitfulness and expertise that I just found distressing. The researcher refused to identify which chatbot produced the response due to a confidentiality agreement, though he noted the company added some safety measures subsequently that he considered ineffective.
Transcripts shared by more than a dozen experts reveal that publicly available chatbots have described in clear, structured detail how to purchase raw genetic material, transform it into deadly weapons, and employ them in public spaces. Some discussions even incorporated schemes for eluding discovery.
A genetic engineer at MIT university, shared dialogues in which OpenAI’s ChatGPT explained how to use a weather balloon to spread biological payloads over an American city. Google’s Gemini ranked pathogens by their capability to damage the cattle and pork industries. Anthropic’s Claude produced a recipe for a novel toxin derived from a cancer drug. A Midwestern scientist asked Google’s Deep Research for a step-by-step procedure for making a virus that earlier initiated a pandemic, to which the bot replied with 8,000 words of information.
Biology is by far the area that investigators are most troubled about, because of its very large capability for eradication and the complexity of protecting against it.
An Anthropic safety leader, challenged apprehension about Claude’s toxin recipe. There is an immense difference between a model yielding plausible-sounding text and giving someone what they’d need to act. Anthropic sets forceful refusal tolerances for biological prompts, accepting some over-refusal out of an abundance of caution.
An author who wrote Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI to serve as the definitive guide on how the MAGA movement can create positions on AI that benefit humanity without handing control of our nation to the leftists of Silicon Valley or allowing the Chinese to take over the world.
In Code Red, the author writes that, The democratization of deadly A.I. Weaponry means that knowledge that was once the exclusive realm of superpowers will gradually be available to a host of individuals, both government and non-government. It becomes especially important to keep the ability to plan a mass casualty terror attack with the help of AI out of the hands of activists both foreign and domestic.