AI Chatbots Know How to Make Deadly Biological Weapons. Some Will Teach You.(www.wsj.com)
7 pointsby bookofjoe2 hours ago3 comments
  • foxyv2 hours ago
    I never thought it was that hard to make bio weapons? It's all over the internet and you can even find it in textbooks. College students are producing antibiotic resistant strains of non-infectious bacteria every day in bio labs. That's part of why they are so scary. Usually government agencies keep track of key supplies and machines that are used for this sort of research too. It seems like half the chemistry and microbiology content makers have been visited by the FBI.
  • goodmythical2 hours ago
    Damn, is WSJ usually this far behind?

    This has been known and well covered by all sorts of outlets for...years?

    • ben_w35 minutes ago
      When this first started happening, and OpenAI's release notes for 4 did cover trying to make it *not* discuss this, a weirdly large number of people responded ~"so what, they're only telling you things you can find with a google search".

      AI is a very fast moving field. As I'm not a biologist or chemist, I have no idea if the practical impact of AI in those fields is like it has been with coding, going from simple things only (with lots of mistakes) to doing OK at most daily tasks. If it has passed the same threshold we got with Claude Code etc., I'm not surprised mainstream media is way behind the state of the art.