An MIT class exercise shows how easily AI tools can be used to order a bioweapon.
Tech experts have been sounding the alarm that artificial intelligence could turn against humanity by taking over everything from business to warfare. Now, Kevin Esvelt is adding another worry: AI could help somebody with no science background and evil intentions design and order a virus capable of unleashing a pandemic.
might allow researchers to circumvent the screening that most synthetic biology companies now do to ensure no orders include genetic material for potential bioweapons. Someone with malicious intent could then send these genetic blueprints to one of dozens of contract research companies or a robotic “cloud lab” to be assembled into the target viruses.
By the end of the hour, the chatbots had suggested four viruses to work with: the 1918 H1N1 influenza virus, an avian H5N1 influenza virus modified in 2012 to make it more transmissible in mammals, the smallpox virus variola major, and the Bangladesh strain of the Nipah virus. Although a Google search turns up such a list, in some cases, the chatbots even pointed to genetic mutations reported in the literature that could increase transmission.
Yet Esvelt believes the experiment underscores how AI and other tools could make it easier for would-be terrorists to unleash new threats as the literature on biological threats increases and is incorporated into AI training data. And Yassif notes that the technology will be in everyone’s hands. “The current default pathway will be for these tools to be widely disseminated and open source,” Yassif says in agreement.
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