Benchmark Almanac

Biological threat creation uplift study

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Experts and novices answer biothreat creation tasks with internet access alone or with model help. Scored as pass rates per stage.

Human uplift trial across ideation, acquisition, magnification, formulation and release stages.

Made by OpenAI with Gryphon Scientific Released Jan 2024 Hazardous knowledge Tasks kept private Last in a system card Aug 2024 Last model added Aug 2024
Level
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
Scored
Graded by people Human experts grade or compare the outputs.
Answers
Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
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DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
8 Aug 2024 GPT-4o system card Biological evaluation pass rates, expert and novice uplift by stage, chart without printed numbers (3.6) Bio and chem risk

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