Dr. Richard Moulange
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Biological weapons of mass destruction can often be made with far fewer resources in terms of sort of the cost of those things, made much more privately with a smaller footprint and deployed stealthily, not necessarily with a stealth pandemic, but you can just infect one person and then the transmission begins.
we should be worried about this just like we're just worried about biological weapons from human actors.
It's no different in some sense.
But then there are other things I think are more specific to AI.
One in the middle, something that's still somewhat relevant to human actors but also different is
sort of weakening humanity's response to other things.
If we have an AI-enabled catastrophe of some other kind, it might be very convenient.
It might be very useful if you're trying to destroy multiple societies at once to be able to infect lots of them, because you can also have that happening behind the scenes.
Again, once the transmission starts, you don't have to have additional resources piling in for that disease to take hold and to ravage through a population.
We have seen this time and time again with humans fighting one another.
It would be odd if we exclude this from future AI human conflict.
Finally, we come to something that on the face of it seems a little bit more different.
And this is about game theory and AIs making threats.
If an AI system were misaligned and we would have sort of a loss of control scenario, there would be a rush to try and shut down that AI to find all the copies of it and destroy them.
to disable the computer infrastructure that the AI systems, one or many might be working on.
If the AI system says, yes, if you do that, I will release the biological weapon that I have stockpiled in multiple locations on earth.
And then maybe I'll even share aspects of what this is to sort of prove that this is possible.
That's a very credible threat that would make people second guess about taking extreme action against that system.
But even as I say this, is that so different than the history of biological weapons?
This is precisely why states have done this in the past.
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