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    François Chollet Discusses AI Progress and Biology Risks

    The researcher shared thoughts on AI advances potentially enabling synthetic pandemics.

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    François Chollet posted that some worry rapid AI gains behind a 2026 cybersecurity shift could extend to biology and create extinction-level synthetic pandemics. He said he would not panic yet would treat the risk seriously. Chollet noted biology is not the same as cybersecurity. The post is from the creator of the Keras library and ARC-AGI benchmark who co-founded ARC Prize and Ndea.

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    @fcholletSome people worry that the rapid AI progress driving the "AI cybersecurity revolution" of 2026 could soon spill over into biology, potentially leading to extinction-level synthetic pandemics. While I would not panic, I would take the risk seriously. Biology is obviously not the same as cybersecurity -- cybersecurity is a fully verifiable domain, where you can synthetically train unbounded capabilities, and therefore where superhuman skill is straightforwardly achievable. Meanwhile biology is not a verifiable domain, so capability remains critically dependent on human-generated data. Plus, biology has critical non-digital bottlenecks, such as the requirement for physical wet-lab experimentation. However, it is plausible that synthetic pandemics were already feasible without AI, and that AI might lead to the proliferation of these capabilities. That is a real risk, and we are not prepared for it.

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    @fcholletSome people worry that the rapid AI progress driving the "AI cybersecurity revolution" of 2026 could soon spill over into biology, potentially leading to extinction-level synthetic pandemics. While I would not panic, I would take the risk seriously. Biology is obviously not the same as cybersecurity -- cybersecurity is a fully verifiable domain, where you can synthetically train unbounded capabilities, and therefore where superhuman skill is straightforwardly achievable. Meanwhile biology is not a verifiable domain, so capability remains critically dependent on human-generated data. Plus, biology has critical non-digital bottlenecks, such as the requirement for physical wet-lab experimentation. However, it is plausible that synthetic pandemics were already feasible without AI, and that AI might lead to the proliferation of these capabilities. That is a real risk, and we are not prepared for it.