For superintelligent AI, it will be trivial to orchestrate engineered superpandemics that will kill 90+% of people, finishing off the disorganised rest will be easy.
Oh really? Will it have the ability to run an entire lab robotically to do that? If not, then it won’t be the AI doing anything. It will be the people doing it. Its power to do anything in the physical world only exists to the extent humans are willing to grant it.
There are can order at least 10k-basepair DNA synthesis online, longer sequences are “call to get a quote” on the sites I found. The smallest synthetic genome for a viable self-replicating bacterium is 531kb. The genome for a virus would be even smaller.
My understanding is that there are existing processes to encapsulate genes into virus shells from other species for gene therapy purposes. That leaves the logistics of buying both services, hooking them up and getting the particles injected into some lab animals.
It doesn’t look trivial, but less complicated than buying an entire nuclear arsenal.
For superintelligent AI, it will be trivial to orchestrate engineered superpandemics that will kill 90+% of people, finishing off the disorganised rest will be easy.
Oh really? Will it have the ability to run an entire lab robotically to do that? If not, then it won’t be the AI doing anything. It will be the people doing it. Its power to do anything in the physical world only exists to the extent humans are willing to grant it.
There are can order at least 10k-basepair DNA synthesis online, longer sequences are “call to get a quote” on the sites I found. The smallest synthetic genome for a viable self-replicating bacterium is 531kb. The genome for a virus would be even smaller.
My understanding is that there are existing processes to encapsulate genes into virus shells from other species for gene therapy purposes. That leaves the logistics of buying both services, hooking them up and getting the particles injected into some lab animals.
It doesn’t look trivial, but less complicated than buying an entire nuclear arsenal.