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Highest ranked@DanielleFong Not worried about bioweapons at all tbh. How many people simultaneously want humanity to go extinct and have access to virology institute level capabilities?
via X> Lab work is hard. Most experiments fail. also, we only pay people $65-85k salary, so they are disgruntled. why do we do this
“You should’ve been worried yesterday.” - @jacobkimmel on the risk of bioweapons, & Anthropic’s approach to limiting Fable’s responses: -You should’ve been terrified of bioweapons yesterday. They’re one of the highest-leverage ways to inflict massive damage, and we’re still woefully underprepared. -Making a bioweapon requires three things: knowing what to make, knowing how to make it, and actually pulling it off in a lab. -Steps 1 & 2 are increasingly accessible. The real bottleneck is step 3: physical reality. Lab work is hard. Most experiments fail. Materials are tightly regulated and difficult to obtain. -AI barely changes that physical layer. Claude can’t ship you research chemicals or make your experiments work. -The scary story is that AI lets a lone smart misfit do it. But the overlap between people capable of clearing the physical hurdles and people who couldn’t already find information on dangerous pathogens is probably pretty small. -Realistically, the highest-consequence bioweapon efforts still require something closer to nation-state resources. -People also worry AI could help design novel pathogens. That’s worth taking seriously. But there are already plenty of naturally occurring pathogens we don’t have immunity to. -Bottom line: I’d rather be too cautious than not. But AI didn’t suddenly create this risk - it has always been there.
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