Comment by TeMPOraL
2 years ago
Except the argument, projected to the dimension of WMDs, is not that AI is like nukes - rather, AI is like bioweapons. Nukes are dangerous when someone is willing to drop them at someone else. Bioweapons are inherently dangerous - the more you refine them, the worse it gets; eventually, you may build one so deadly that one careless handling mistake ends the world.
covid a great recent example of this
It might be an example of that, but the reason so many dismiss the lab leak hypothesis in favour of wet markets is that the markets were already expected to be the breeding ground for "the next pandemic" well before Covid actually happened. Wet markets were also associated with the outbreaks of H5N1 avian flu, SARS, and monkey pox.