How AI could enable bioterrorismOnly a hundred years ago, no person could have single handedly destroyed humanity. Nuclear weapons changed this situation, giving the power of global annihilation to a small handful of nations with powerful militaries. Now, thanks to advances in biotechnology and AI, a much larger group of people could have the power to create a global catastrophe. This is the upshot of a new paper from MIT titled “Can large language models democratize access to dual-use biotechnology?” The authors demonstrate that today’s language models are capable of providing detailed instructions for non-expert users about how to create pathogens that could cause a global pandemic.Language models can help users build dangerous [...] ---Outline:(00:10) How AI could enable bioterrorism(03:48) Policymakers continue to focus on AI(05:27) Links --- First published: June 13th, 2023 Source: https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-10 --- Want more? Check out our ML Safety Newsletter for technical safety research. Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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