AI Is Powerful Enough to Crack Our Hardest Math Problems–and Kill Us All

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Post by siddbudd » Sat, Sep 12, 2026, 2:21 PM UTC

47484848 wrote: post #13

autophagian wrote: post #4

This tracks with my experience. I have assembled a homebrew microbiology lab from various parts from aliexpress and integrated it into my agent harness. Just a year ago it was a complete mess, but current models are extremely good at synthesising novel protein and virus structures. One put me in the hospital not last week, haha! I cant wait to see what I perish of

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Post by jaybrendansmith » Sat, Sep 12, 2026, 4:48 PM UTC

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smallerfish wrote: post #17

Isn't the "kill us all" concern met by keeping nukes & essential infrastructure airgapped? This is something that should be the case already, and is certainly urgent if not the case. Instead of doomerism and calls to slow down the development of AI (not gonna happen), the conversation could be pivoted towards thorough threat analysis / audit. Granted that a rogue adversarial AI in a sci-fi scenario could theoreticall…

AI will do social engineering in the future. It will make humans do physical braches and terror attacks. All it needs is some money and there will be a black market. Money is easy to defraud online judging by north korean hacking success. Nukes cannot be airgapped, since the president needs to be able to make a call. And they will make a call based on information, and this information can be compromised. It can get p…