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xyzsparetimexyzyesterday at 6:02 AM1 replyview on HN

What's the explanation for why a bioweapon couldn't easily be made? As someone who doesn't have access to micro biologists


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adastra22yesterday at 11:32 AM

You can go download the smallpox genome. You don't need AI to do that. The problem of creating bioweapons remains that it requires very, very meticulous lab work under careful conditions, and a lot of experimental knowledge that the bioweapons facilities probably have but LLMs do not. There isn't an actual mechanism here by which you can mix together a few test tubes and come up with a killer virus.

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