Yao Shunyu warns of AI bioweapon risk as Tencent prepares to release Hy4
What happened
On November 9, The Decoder reported that Tencent chief AI scientist Yao Shunyu warned AI will soon be able to develop biological weapons. He argues for combining open and closed models against the risk rather than relying on closed models alone. The report notes Hugging Face once used GLM-5.2 to analyze attack logs that closed models refused to handle, but stopping the attack came from patching flaws, rebuilding servers and rotating credentials; the model only helped with forensic analysis. Tencent plans to release open-weight model Hy4 and a safety report in the coming days, saying its biological capability sits below the high-risk threshold and that filtering training data removed hacking ability.
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- The DecoderTencent's AI chief says AI bioweapons are coming, but closing off models isn't the answer
腾讯首席 AI 科学家姚顺雨警告 AI 很快将具备开发生物武器的能力，主张结合开源与闭源模型应对风险。Hugging Face 曾用 GLM-5.2 分析闭源模型拒绝处理的攻击日志，但阻止攻击依靠的是修补漏洞、重建服务器和轮换凭据，模型仅参与取证分析。腾讯计划在未来几天发布开放权重模型 Hy4 及安全报告，称其生物能力低于高风险门槛，并通过过滤训练数据移除了黑客攻击能力。
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