Yoshua Bengio

So we already know how to make chemical weapons and there are international agreements to try to not do that.

But up to now, it required very strong expertise to build these things.

And AIs know enough now to help someone who doesn't have the expertise to build these chemical weapons.

And then the same idea applies on the other front.

So B...

For biological, and again, we're talking about biological weapons.

So what is a biological weapon?

So for example, a very dangerous virus that already exists, but potentially in the future, new viruses that the AIs could help somebody with insufficient expertise to do it themselves build.

N, R for radiological.

So we're talking about substances that could make you sick because of the radiations.

How do you manipulate them?

There's all, you know, very special expertise.

And finally, N for nuclear.

The recipe for building a bomb, a nuclear bomb, is something that could be in our future.

And right now,

For these kinds of risks, very few people in the world had the knowledge to do that.

And so it didn't happen.

But AI is democratizing knowledge, including the dangerous knowledge.

We need to manage that.

Yeah.