Sparks: ‘These risks are real’: the threat of AI bioweapons - podcast

As water finds every crack in the dyke, so does the knowledge of destruction find every unguarded pathway, and we have built the dyke only where we happened to be looking.

A few thousand scientists possess the knowledge to end millions of lives, and the millions have not yet asked why they permit this - I confess the arithmetic confounds me.

The probability of catastrophe is small and the consequence is infinite, and the wager is not whether to act but which infinity you are willing to face.

What is treated as common sense is that progress is inevitable and regulation is obstruction, and this common sense serves the interest of those who profit from the unregulated interval.

The iron room is sealed and the air is thinning, and the guards have been replaced by a podcast that describes the thinning air in a calm and measured voice.

We could distribute the knowledge freely and build the safeguards into the architecture itself; we don't, and the distance between those two facts is a choice disguised as complexity.