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It's the "Biological threats" for me. The fact that they have this as a specific risk category just underscores how laughable this is. Out of all the nefarious
by semi-extrinsic 2y ago
It's the "Biological threats" for me. The fact that they have this as a specific risk category just underscores how laughable this is. Out of all the nefarious things a bad actor could try to use an LLM for, creating biological threats is by far the most implausible. Even "nuclear terrorism" would be more relevant.
Sabotaging infrastructure or doing something "interesting" with chemicals are a couple of scenarios where an unskilled person might be significantly aided by something as crude as an LLM. But working with biological systems requires years and years of experience with working in a laboratory to do anything remotely dangerous. If you have that level of competence, you don't need the LLM to tell you what to do.
This is just the same level of technobabble fearmongering as the "biohazard" mode in the Tesla climate controls.
- qafy 2y agoI personally find it much more likely that someone would ask ChatGPT how to mix up household chemicals to create smoke bomb or tear gas than ask it how to make a nuclear bomb.