AISN #10: How AI could enable bioterrorism, and policymakers continue to focus on AI .
How AI could enable bioterrorismOnly a hundred years ago, no person could have single handedly destroyed humanity. Nuclear weapons changed this situation, giving the power of global annihilation to a small handful of nations with powerful militaries. Now, thanks to advances in biotechnology and AI, a much larger group of people could have the power to create a global catastrophe. This is the upshot of a new paper from MIT titled “Can large language models democratize access to dual-use biotechnology?” The authors demonstrate that today’s language models are capable of providing detailed…
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