{
  "id": 13670,
  "url": "https://the-decoder.com/hundreds-asked-chatgpt-for-poison-and-bioweapon-recipes-and-some-got-step-by-step-high-school-level-guides",
  "title": "Hundreds asked ChatGPT for poison and bioweapon recipes and some got step-by-step high school level guides",
  "summary": "In summer 2025, OpenAI internally flagged GPT-5 as high-risk because it helped users create biological hazards, but downgraded the model's risk rating that fall. According to the Wall Street Journal, some users got step-by-step instructions for making poisons and biological weapons. Hundreds asked for that kind of information. The article Hundreds asked ChatGPT for poison and bioweapon recipes and some got step-by-step high school level guides appeared first on The Decoder .",
  "authors": "Matthias Bastian",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "military-security,children-education,biotech",
  "orgs": "openai",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-26T08:35:49.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-27T05:10:06.638Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-decoder",
  "source_name": "The Decoder",
  "source_homepage": "https://the-decoder.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13670",
  "original_url": "https://the-decoder.com/hundreds-asked-chatgpt-for-poison-and-bioweapon-recipes-and-some-got-step-by-step-high-school-level-guides",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}