Claim · 2023-07-25 · event · Stated in source · Supported

Amodei's oral statement to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee of 25 July 2023 states that extrapolation from current systems to those expected in two to three years suggests a substantial risk that AI will enable many more actors to carry out large-scale biological attacks.

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Statement of Dario Amodei, Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing "Oversight of A.I.: Principles for Regulation" → articulates → Catastrophic risk from misuse

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Arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI →

Claim and evidence

Statement of Dario Amodei, Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing "Oversight of A.I.: Principles for Regulation"articulates ↓Catastrophic risk from misuse

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Date: 2023-07-25 · event Records dated 2023 →
Role: Articulation
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction

Scope and limitsThe statement reports the speaker's company's own study, which is not public in the hearing record; it is a statement of the risk as assessed, not evidence of the study's findings. Read in the printed transcript, not in the written testimony.

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Oversight of A.I.: Principles for Regulation. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, July 25, 2023 (S. Hrg. 118-108)

U.S. Government Publishing Office (govinfo.gov) · 2023-07-25

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Source excerpt

“a straightforward extrapolation of today's systems to those we expect to see in 2 to 3 years suggests a substantial risk that AI systems will be able to fill in all the missing pieces, enabling many more actors to carry out large-scale biological attacks.”

Location in source Statement of Dario Amodei

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Authors: United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 e139f665eb08ac6ce25423b0abf011ff6ab3065b5d69d691ec5afa4ff12a461e). Printed hearing record, HTML text (CHRG-118shrg53503); oral statements as transcribed. The prepared written statements, served by judiciary.senate.gov, could not be retrieved. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31, with the same bytes.
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, “Oversight of A.I.: Principles for Regulation. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, July 25, 2023 (S. Hrg. 118-108)”, 2023-07-25.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (44 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item 97) re-read the record’s source and found the quotation and stance supported. No human editorial review.

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