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0 pointsDanjoe42y ago0 comments

The threat of bioterrorism is in no way enabled or increased by LLMs. There are hundreds of guides on how to make fully synthetic pathogens, freely available online, for the last 20 years. Information is not the constraint.

The way we've always curbed manufacture of drugs, bombs, and bioweapons is by restricting access to the source materials. The "LLMs will help people make bioweapons" argument is a complete lie used as justification by the government and big corps for seizing control of the models. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12114528/

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stavros2y ago

I haven't found any convincing arguments to any real risk, even if the LLM becomes as smart as people. We already have people, even evil people, and they do a lot of harm, but we cope.

I think this hysteria is at best incidentally useful at helping governments and big players curtail and own AI, at worst incited hy them.

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stavros2y ago

I haven't found any convincing arguments to any real risk, even if the LLM becomes as smart as people. We already have people, even evil people, and they do a lot of harm, but we cope.

I think this hysteria is at best incidentally useful at helping governments and big players curtail and own AI, at worst incited hy them.

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