Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026

Post by dubcanada » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 6:45 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 gsk66 » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 6:46 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 Scea91 » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 6:47 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…

Post by jerf » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 6:48 PM UTC

genxy wrote: post #50

jerf wrote: post #20

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I accidentally brewed up an effective one myself. Round when I must have been 8 or 9 or so, some neighborhood kids and I played at creating a brew in a trick-or-treat bucket by putting everything we could find in it, like grass clippings, some sand, leaves, some mushrooms we found lying around, just everything, and giving it a fairly aggressive stirring. At the end of the day it was time to dispose of it, so we poure…

Stop murdering ants.

Post by BobbyJo » Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 6:52 PM UTC

dubcanada wrote: post #52

BobbyJo wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

2 - is a little pedantic, they used agent orange to kill foliage to kill people... They didn't gas people with chlorine or mustard, but they mass destroyed crops and foliage, to kill people. And "affected US troops as much as Vietnamese" is just completely incorrect, US covered a nation in herbicide, went home, got cancer. Is completely different then having your soil destroyed for decades.