Tencent Chief Scientist Yaoshunyu Warns of AI Bioweapon Risks and Opposes Full Model Closed-Sourcing
11/09/2026 — 11/10, 00:16·1 sources (all)·1 reports (all)
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- Tencent's chief AI scientist Yaoshunyu warned that AI will soon develop bioweapon capabilities, advocating for a middle ground between open…
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According to a report by The Decoder dated November 9, 2026, Vinces Yao Shunyu, chief AI scientist at Tencent, warned that AI will soon be capable of developing bioweapons, and argued for finding a middle ground between open and closed models.
The report notes that safety filters placed on open-source systems can be easily stripped away through abliteration, while closed models such as Anthropic's Claude often block too aggressively. For its upcoming open-weight model Hy4, Tencent is said to be filtering dangerous hacking knowledge directly from its training data.
As of the report, the story stands at Yao's warning and his description of the safety approach behind Hy4, with no further developments mentioned beyond that.
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According to The Decoder, Tencent chief AI scientist Vinces Yao Shunyu warned that AI will soon enable bioweapon development, arguing for a balanced approach between open and closed models. He noted that Tencent's upcoming Hy4 open-weight model filters dangerous hacking data directly during training.
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