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Comment on AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor

Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Since when does AI translate to being able to create bacteria and stuff?

If having the information on how to do so was enough to create pathogens, we should already have been wiped out because of books and libraries.

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photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You can’t type “How do I make a pothogen to wipe out a city” into a book. A sufficiently advanced and aligned AI will, however, answer that question with a detailed list of production steps, resource requirements and timeline.

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- Kichae@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Right. So, the actual danger here is... Search engines?
  
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- Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Oog, what if by making this fire, it burns down the forest?
  
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  - LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Well that did happen to be fair.
    
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    Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Too soon
    
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- HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  this requires special materials like enzymes and such. It would much easier to restrict access to those. Now true this godlike ai could go back to show you how to make all the base stuff but you need equipment for this like centrifuges and you will need special media. Its like the ai telling you how to make a nuke really. Yeah it could star you off with bronze age metal smithing and you could work your way up to the modern materials you would need but realistically you won't be able to do it (assuming again you restrict certain materials)
  
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- snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Have you heard about this thing called the internet?
  
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