Dr. Richard Moulange
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first heard Mar 2026
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They have stockpiled weapons, sometimes I think misguidedly, but as a fail safe to say, if you attack us, boots on the ground, or if you use nuclear weapons, we will release a biological weapon in response.
That doesn't always make sense because biological weapons can go back on you.
But that's even more argument for why an AI might do it because AI is run on digital infrastructure.
They are not biological beings currently.
They are not in fact vulnerable to one of the things that humanity as a whole is most vulnerable to.
It's wonderful.
Evolution has equipped us with very powerful immune systems in lots of ways.
Thank goodness I can shake off the cold I had over Christmas.
But also, that is what kills most people on Earth.
It's disease.
That's not what kills AIs.
I think the first thing is that the sorts of AI takeover stories that include this, that often come from committed members of the classic AI safety community, don't seem very nuanced to me.
So maybe this is a thing that I should be careful to steal man the other side, as they say.
But...
it is not enough to write down.
And then the super intelligence makes a weapon that kills everyone and go, oh, well, of course it was just much smarter.
So you could just do that.
This is a concern, but there are more steps involved.
Even as I'm saying to you, Rob, this is really concerning.
I think this is a major national security risk that is only going to grow markedly in the next decade and requires serious resources.
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