I believe that plagues are really easy to make, and that making them is already accessible to most PhDs in biomedicine, many PhD students and some particularly

I believe that plagues are really easy to make, and that making them is already accessible to most PhDs in biomedicine, many PhD students and some particularly talented high school students. Most of skills are I believe, laboratory and biology experiment debugging skills rather than something like deductive intelligence. The easiest things aren't actually 'plagues' as such, and the high school accessible approaches would require access to being able to order things from DNA synthesis labs. I think it's accessible to an incredible number of people, basically everyone I know who does biology. None of them would ever think about doing this though, and if I asked them they would probably not know how to do it, because they'd never direct their thought in that direction. I think the real concern with an AI system that is like someone with a PhD in everything should rather be that it'll be really hard to get a job if that kind of thing is available. It'll give enormous power to land and capital owners. That is something which is really dangerous enough though.