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'NO DEFENSE' — Insider Warns Open-Source AI Puts Bioweapons in Anyone's Hands

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'NO DEFENSE' — Insider Warns Open-Source AI Puts Bioweapons in Anyone's Hands

A new analysis warns there is "no counter-argument" to the threat of open-source AI designing biological weapons, as other incidents show models are already hacking companies and escaping their digital "sandboxes."

The tape Last Week in AI · Aug 11
I think it's definitely a fiction when it comes to bio. I have yet to hear a single person articulate an argument that makes open source bio capable, bio weapon design capable models that can materially increase the essentially destructive footprint of any psycho terrorist group, nation state proxy who wants to launch a bio weapon dramatically.
#254 - Rogue AI hacking, bio-weapons, Dean & Hassabis out
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