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> There’s no need for an LLM, just a phd in virology, a decent lab, and a handful of grad students. You are missing the forest for the trees. The existing viro
by thephyber 21d ago
> There’s no need for an LLM, just a phd in virology, a decent lab, and a handful of grad students.
You are missing the forest for the trees. The existing virologist PhDs and the GoF labs are a scarce resource. The model makes the same scarce knowledge accessible to many more malicious actors.
- nullbio 21d agoThere's > 6 thousand of these labs. I wouldn't really consider that scarce considering the implication.
- thephyber 11d agoQuit being pedantic and try to understand the concept I'm expressing, not just semantically parse my sentence looking for the first quibble. There are only a few dozen PhDs working the BSL-4+ labs worldwide. And they have state security and state intelligence services constantly monitoring them. The BSL-1 workers (a few thousand like you mention) have access to only much lower risk bio assets/risks. And the underlying message is that the LLM empowers 8 billion people to do some of what those scarce dozens are doing.