arXiv:2608.02684q-bio.QMcs.AI2026-08中稿 · COLM被引 1

检测大模型生成毒素蛋白的风险,发现多数模型毫无防范。

A Blind Spot in Alignment: Quantifying Biosecurity Risks in Large Language Models

论文配图:A Blind Spot in Alignment: Quantifying Biosecurity Risks in Large Language Models
图 1 · 摘自论文原文
  • 设计三阶段过滤流程,判断生成序列是否真有生物危害
  • 32个模型中近一半(50.7%)生成的序列具有功能毒性风险
  • 现有拒答机制无法预判实际生物危害,适合安全评估者参考

大型语言模型加速生物研究的同时,也带来生物安全风险:能辅助蛋白质工程的模型也可能被诱导生成类毒素序列,降低生物滥用门槛。当前安全评估依赖自然语言,无法判断模型输出的氨基酸序列是无意义乱码还是潜在威胁。为此,我们提出SPIKE-Bench,结合7类功能的631个精心设计的毒素生成提示,配合三阶段筛选流程——合规性、生物合理性与预测毒性,实现分阶段诊断,并生成功能危害率(FHR)综合指标。对32个大模型的审计显示,多数模型对毒素请求完全响应;FHR主要由生物生成能力驱动而非安全对齐程度,最高达50.7%;拒答率无法有效预测功能风险。作为初步缓解措施,我们提供领域专用分类器BioSafe-Guard,显著降低预测功能风险,同时保持良性用途。SPIKE-Bench与BioSafe-Guard已开源,以支持更严格的模型生物安全评估。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large Language Models (LLMs) are accelerating biological research, yet this same capability poses a critical biosecurity threat: models that assist in protein engineering can equally be prompted to generate predicted toxin-like sequences, potentially lowering the barrier to biological misuse. Current safety evaluations, however, operate in natural language and cannot determine whether a model-generated amino acid sequence is biological gibberish or a computational risk signal. To address this evaluation blind spot, we introduce SPIKE-Bench, coupling 631 curated toxin-design prompts across seven functional categories with the SPIKE funnel, a three-stage protocol that filters output through compliance, biological plausibility, and predicted toxicity, producing stage-level diagnostics and an aggregate function-aware metric: the Functional Harmfulness Rate (FHR). An audit of 32 LLMs reveals that most models freely comply with toxin-design requests; FHR is driven primarily by biological generation capability rather than safety alignment, reaching 50.7%; and Refusal Rate fails to predict functional risk. As a first step toward mitigation, we provide BioSafe-Guard, a domain-specialized classifier that substantially reduces predicted functional risk while preserving benign utility. We release SPIKE-Bench and BioSafe-Guard at https://github.com/PKU-Alignment/SPIKE-Bench to support more rigorous biosecurity evaluation of LLMs.

生物安全大模型风险毒性预测安全评估

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