Comment by handoflixue
16 hours ago
A talented 17 year old can do quite a bit of damage with nuclear materials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
I'd personally prefer that to be limited to the sort of person who can understand the science, not "anyone with an LLM" - having an "intelligent", "reasoning" assistant who can help you through anything you don't understand does lower the bar quite a lot, and I would prefer there to be a fair amount of friction.
It's not like the material isn't out there - if you want to learn about this stuff, an LLM will happily point you towards Wikipedia and other public sources, it's just not going to walk you through the assembly.
Sad to read how things unfolded after his experiment.