AI-Made Bioweapons Are Washington’s Latest Security Obsession
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-08-02/national-security-threat-from-ai-made-bioweapons-grips-us-government?srnd=homepage-americas
AI-Made Bioweapons Are Washington’s Latest Security Obsession
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-08-02/national-security-threat-from-ai-made-bioweapons-grips-us-government?srnd=homepage-americas
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*From Bloomberg News reporter* [*Riley Griffin*](https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ATsVc8UbABc/riley-griffin)*:*
Rocco Casagrande entered the White House grounds holding a black box slightly bigger than a Rubik’s Cube. Within it were a dozen test tubes with the ingredients that — if assembled correctly — had the potential to cause the next pandemic. An AI chatbot had given him the deadly recipe.
Casagrande, a biochemist and former United Nations weapons inspector, wasn’t planning to unleash a bioweapon in a room full of White House officials. He was there to brief them on the many ways artificial intelligence could teach users to make dangerous viruses. Tools like ChatGPT could help terrorists identify potent biological agents and secure the materials needed to make them, he told a room full of US officials in the spring of 2023. It wouldn’t be long before AI could not only help recreate existing pathogens, but also devise potentially more dangerous ones.
“What if every terrorist had a little scientist sitting on their shoulder?” Casagrande said months after the White House briefing. The prospect of AI-made bioweapons was no longer science fiction. “These tools had gone from absolute crap a year ago to being quite good.”
Implementing artificial intelligence into bioweapon technology could have a catastrophic consequence to it. The R&D of artificial intelligence is not suffice enough for us to start exploring into areas of military technology. We need more years and research to understand the true exponential power artificial intelligence has to offer. Our recent discoveries of AI technology is not enough and could be detrimental if we use it for war or war like activities. Bioweapons is very risky and should be treated, in regards, with a high risk level but I guess the US government wants to win a weapons race with China and other global powers.
This is so stupid, it hurts.
“Oh no, this lossy text archive might contain information that’s widely available in any biology high-school text book, what if someone infers it to retrieve this piece of information that can be found in first Google Search results, on a Wikipedia?”
Idiots.
Ya know… I really wish folks would actually understand how impractical biological warfare is, and how that’s generally meant its a rarity in history versus the alternatives. Would really save me the trouble of having to hear the same hyperbolic science fiction ranting year after year.