Remember Stuxnet? Hack one of these, wait until the right compounds are physically loaded, then execute https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/products/chemistry-and-bi...

Well right now this would be highly implausible (still possible though).

But what I garner is that AI/robotics led wet lab work is in progress. And hacking the AI running the wet lab to make a virus is definitely plausible as that seems to be one of the directions we’re going in the AI+biopharma space

These days you can only try, that's why I wrote that :)

But in the near future labs will be more automated I guess.

The other option you can try these days is maybe social engineering, impersonation, etc. where you try to persuade someone to do that for you.

It’s complete science fiction so they’re allowed to say anything. They could have said the AI will upload itself to the internet, start self replicating, hack the stock market. Whatever they want because it’s all made up nonsense.

First, hack into a factory and invent machines that can do lab-bench chemistry. Then...