Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026

Post by alansaber » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 6:34 PM UTC

1235-asgg wrote: post #10

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Post by FpUser » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 6:37 PM UTC

BobbyJo wrote: post #30

tredre3 wrote: post #27

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I don't know why you emphasize rogue and non-state actors. It seems equally likely to me that it would be done by America. America is the only country who deployed nukes (Japan) and chemical weapons (Vietnam) on massive scales. I can agree that access to bioengineering tooling is easier and cheaper than ever, and thus eventually it stands to reason that a nobody in his basement could engineer a lethal novel virus and…

1) The US is not the only country to deploy chemical weapons. Are you forgetting all of WW1? It's the whole reason chemical weapons are a no-no now. 2) The US didn't use chemicals weapons in Vietnam. Agent Orange was used to kill off foliage, not as a weapon against people, and the side effects were unintentional and affected US troops as much as Vietnamese. Edit: I originally noted WW2, but I was thinking of WW1's w…

Post by advisedwang » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 6:38 PM UTC

tredre3 wrote: post #27

tedsanders wrote: post #17

Meta: The potential proliferation of biological weapons is serious. Millions could die. It's easy to joke about before it happens, but try to imagine how this thread might look after the successful deployment of a biological weapon by a rogue state or non-state actor. I encourage you to take this topic seriously and contribute posts that add new information or perspectives to the discussion. (I myself think the odds…

I don't know why you emphasize rogue and non-state actors. It seems equally likely to me that it would be done by America. America is the only country who deployed nukes (Japan) and chemical weapons (Vietnam) on massive scales. I can agree that access to bioengineering tooling is easier and cheaper than ever, and thus eventually it stands to reason that a nobody in his basement could engineer a lethal novel virus and…

Post by stackghost » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 6:39 PM UTC

neom wrote: post #8

The_Blade wrote: post #3

the inline link to the page to the report was Slashdotted for a moment (yesssssss), but here is the report directly now: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/e50be2e51e7695dc4b1366a37a245a...

Interesting document. People are vibe coding some crazy shit: "A single Claude subscriber, likely a Bamako-based independent consultant working with Mali’s state intelligence service, the “Agence Nationale de la Sécurité d’État (ANSE),” used Claude to build a system named “Lakana 360,” a population-scale domestic surveillance platform that monitors roughly 25 million SIM cards on all three of the country’s national m…

Post by well_ackshually » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 6:40 PM UTC

BobbyJo wrote: post #30

tredre3 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know why you emphasize rogue and non-state actors. It seems equally likely to me that it would be done by America. America is the only country who deployed nukes (Japan) and chemical weapons (Vietnam) on massive scales. I can agree that access to bioengineering tooling is easier and cheaper than ever, and thus eventually it stands to reason that a nobody in his basement could engineer a lethal novel virus and…

1) The US is not the only country to deploy chemical weapons. Are you forgetting all of WW1? It's the whole reason chemical weapons are a no-no now. 2) The US didn't use chemicals weapons in Vietnam. Agent Orange was used to kill off foliage, not as a weapon against people, and the side effects were unintentional and affected US troops as much as Vietnamese. Edit: I originally noted WW2, but I was thinking of WW1's w…