> Advanced machinery and safety precaution is needed to engineer a virus or a bacteria to be a bio weapon. It's not something you can do in your tool shed at the moment.
I think the claim in this report is that it was a state or semi-state actor. They were from "blocked regions" at a "military research institute." So dismissing the threat by solely modeling it as a disgruntled layman rando is not reasonable.
But you totally have to factor in the fact that anything coming out of Anthropic or OpenAI is part of a propaganda campaign to serve their business interests. These threats need to be addressed in ways that cause Anthropic and OpenAI pain (which means damaging their business). Because, FFS, anyone consciously racing to build doomsday devices needs a good, hard slap.
A state or a semi-state doesn’t need an LLM to build a bio weapon if they wanted to. They can directly hire plenty of experts that are morally corrupted enough to do it.
The reason they haven’t done so far is that it would be 100% assured mutual destruction. Us humans share more than 99.99% of our DNA and any virus/bacteria engineered to evade the immune system and kill humans would infect everyone. Such virus is HIV, it wouldn’t care who is the bad or good actors are.
We saw how dangerous even a flu like virus like Covid-19 can be. One could argue that they can make an antivirus for the bio weapon. But the problem is that the bio weapon can easily evolve in few generations and anti virus could be completely useless
I think the claim in this report is that it was a state or semi-state actor. They were from "blocked regions" at a "military research institute." So dismissing the threat by solely modeling it as a disgruntled layman rando is not reasonable.
But you totally have to factor in the fact that anything coming out of Anthropic or OpenAI is part of a propaganda campaign to serve their business interests. These threats need to be addressed in ways that cause Anthropic and OpenAI pain (which means damaging their business). Because, FFS, anyone consciously racing to build doomsday devices needs a good, hard slap.