Chatbots can lower the information barrier to help malicious actors build a bioweapon, making guardrails during chatbot development a good step for biosecurity
Artificial intelligence can help users engineer pathogens—but that's not the real danger. — Human extinction, mass unemployment …
@ClementDelangue ... It's a balanced assessment. Also worth noting that the compute thresholds for reporting details about foundation models trained on DNA in the AI executive order are 1000x lower than for more general systems, reflecting biosecurity concerns.
As policymakers consider the United States' broader biosecurity and biotechnology goals, it will be important to understand that scientific knowledge is already readily accessible with or without a chatbot, Steph Batalis writes. https://foreignpolicy.com/...