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Don't buy the idea that the only thing that's standing in the way of people making bioweapons is the censoring of LLMs. If you are motivated enough to assemble all the kit you'd need, and actually do it, then you should be motivated enough to find the knowledge to do it without chatgpt etc. I'd imagine the main thing that's stopping people is biological weapons are a terrible tool to do what most people want to do -…
> Don't buy the idea that the only thing that's standing in the way of people making bioweapons is the censoring of LLMs. It's not a matter of a one thing standing in the way of people making bioweapons: there's a long chain of actions one would need to complete, and many places for the chain to fail. Access to expertise can reduce the chance of failure at many of these steps, and AIs can increasingly substitute for…
Ultimately what stopped them ( and everybody else - let's face it it wasn't just the soviets ), is it's a bad idea.
I think you way over estimate how hard the knowledge bit is in a biological weapon ( if you just want to kill indiscriminately - specific/controlled targeting a whole different ball game ).
The barrier is motivation and kit ( though the kit is much easier to access that say the stuff you need to build a nuke ).
The idea that all that's stopping some disaffected Joe sitting on his sofa at home and suddenly deciding to make a biological weapon is he can't get a set of instructions from ChatGPT is to miss the point.
Ultimatelty it all comes down to are you motivated enough - if you are then the knowledge is out there with or without an AI summary.