alt Hacker NewsThe bio argument is a call for guardrails, thus regulatory capture.
Using a technology does not make an illegal activity illegal. It already was illegal to begin with.
And there are already guardrails in the form of ethos, law, justice departments and so on. This reality is flagrantly dismissed in their position on open-weights.
Just like cyber crime is just things like extortion etc which are already illegal: following similar reasoning all computer activity should be regulated by their vendors.
Hence the knives factory analogy, which is even more basic to point out this crooked way of reasoning.
Ok but bio weapons could theoretically kill everyone… so it’s not like a knife that could maybe kill a few people.
It stands to reason you would regulate a knife differently than a nuclear bomb.