AI CEOs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft jointly urge Congress to mandate synthetic DNA screening to prevent AI-enabled bioweapon creation

The CEOs of some of the biggest AI companies in the world have set aside their cutthroat competition to co-sign an open letter to Congress asking for more safeguards against a threat that their own technology has helped create.

Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Mustafa Suleyman—the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft AI, respectively—signed their names to a public letter to Congress urging the government to screen for the buying and selling of synthetic materials that could be used to create bioweapons.

The letter, signed also by dozens of experts in the life sciences and national security...