I'm always suspicious of people who claim expertise/special knowledge but aren't quick to offer it and instead engage in petty back-and-forths. Instead of trying to win this debate in the narrow sense, why not just make the best argument you can in support of your position? If authority has any value, it is because it gives you specialized knowledge that lets you judge the likelihood of speculative scenarios better than laymen. If you can't communicate that knowledge and the argument that leads to your conclusion, your supposed expertise just isn't worth much in this context.
Well that's the nature of trying to prevent a thing that hasn't happened yet right? What would be reliable evidence except that terrorists already used AI to help build a bioweapon? I'm sure before 9/11 talking about terrorists using commercial airplanes as makeshift missiles seemed like scaremongering too.
I see zero technical reasons why it could not be done, so being concerned about prevention seems pretty reasonable. I'm not saying AI uses robotic arms to build a bioweapon unassisted or something, just that it dramatically empowers bad actors enough to make them capable of things they previously were not.
It's quite hard to measure until a wet lab gets behind the filter access to benchmark it.
But if you extrapolate from the ability it has in fields that aren't too strictly filtered, it looks pretty scary.
There are arguments against doing that but at first glance it seems like we just don't really know, and we likely won't: if governments decide they're interested in AI gain of function capabilities they won't be broadcasting that or allowing public benchmarks.
I'm always suspicious of people who claim expertise/special knowledge but aren't quick to offer it and instead engage in petty back-and-forths. Instead of trying to win this debate in the narrow sense, why not just make the best argument you can in support of your position? If authority has any value, it is because it gives you specialized knowledge that lets you judge the likelihood of speculative scenarios better than laymen. If you can't communicate that knowledge and the argument that leads to your conclusion, your supposed expertise just isn't worth much in this context.
My argument was that it is reasonable to be concerned that human terrorists might use AI to assist with building bioweapons.
That's merely an assertion unsupported by any reliable evidence, not an actual argument. In short you're just making shit up.
Well that's the nature of trying to prevent a thing that hasn't happened yet right? What would be reliable evidence except that terrorists already used AI to help build a bioweapon? I'm sure before 9/11 talking about terrorists using commercial airplanes as makeshift missiles seemed like scaremongering too.
I see zero technical reasons why it could not be done, so being concerned about prevention seems pretty reasonable. I'm not saying AI uses robotic arms to build a bioweapon unassisted or something, just that it dramatically empowers bad actors enough to make them capable of things they previously were not.
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What an incredible illustration of human intelligence failing to generalize out of distribution.
It's quite hard to measure until a wet lab gets behind the filter access to benchmark it.
But if you extrapolate from the ability it has in fields that aren't too strictly filtered, it looks pretty scary.
There are arguments against doing that but at first glance it seems like we just don't really know, and we likely won't: if governments decide they're interested in AI gain of function capabilities they won't be broadcasting that or allowing public benchmarks.
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