The context is AI safety and naturally you’re meant to interpret the bad actor as having access to and using a powerful AI.
Yes—I didn’t say it was hard without AI, I said it was hard. Using the best tech in the world, humanity doesn’t *even ideally* have ways to get AI to design safe useful vaccines in less than months, since we need to do actual trials.
The context is AI safety and naturally you’re meant to interpret the bad actor as having access to and using a powerful AI.
Yes—I didn’t say it was hard without AI, I said it was hard. Using the best tech in the world, humanity doesn’t *even ideally* have ways to get AI to design safe useful vaccines in less than months, since we need to do actual trials.