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This is because to build a pipe bomb you need difficult to source materials. This is not the case for other types of threats (cyber / bio). I personally have n
by olmo23 9d ago
This is because to build a pipe bomb you need difficult to source materials. This is not the case for other types of threats (cyber / bio).
I personally have no need for an LLM which will readily explain how to cut up the genotype of smallpox into small chunks which can pass the screening at the bio-labs, and can be readily assembled into the real thing by a second year lab-student.
- wolvoleo 9d agoAnyone who knows how to operate a biolab properly will already know how to do such things. This is not really an in your basement thing. Dangerous chemistry is much more of a risk.
- bamboozled 9d agoIgnorant question but won’t there be much smarter teams if people using LLMs to workout how to mitigate these threats. It seems like more of a problem if only a few people have access.
- FeepingCreature 9d agoIt seems like there would be a massive attacker bias in multiple ways. Defenders need consent, attacker does not. Defenders have to work with the human body, attackers only have to break it. Defenders have to stick to the law, which may prevent them from releasing anything at all, attackers do not. And so on. I would not surprised if the attacker's task is a hundred times easier here.
- bamboozled 8d agoI guess any virus that is super destructive is probably not something that can spread very far as it kills its hosts beforehand ?
- FeepingCreature 8d agoYep, you'd want to put it on a timer. Optimally trigger it off some natural event, maybe temperature, so it can achieve universal penetration before activating.
- bamboozled 7d agoSounds a little bit sci-fi I don't think there is any viruses that exist that are just triggered off temperature ?
- FeepingCreature 6d agoI mean I don't know, I'm not a biologist. But existing viruses are not optimized for sneaky mass deaths.
- bamboozled 5d agoIf one doesn't exist, how do you know one can ?
- FeepingCreature 5d agoWell, it's rather more "if you're not a biologist, how do you know it can exist?" Things that don't exist yet are often very predictable. However, it simply seems to me that "Viruses can not condition on environmental temperatures or the side effects of environmental temperature in the body, such as response to UV exposure" is a quite implausible statement, and I have not heard of anything of the sort.
- AngryData 8d agoDifficult to source materials? What? Gunpowder was made across the world hundreds of years ago. Metal working goes back thousands. And anyone can walk into a hardware store and buy stuff that removes 99.9% of the effort to blow stuff up.