If I was a malicious AI trying to design a pandemic.
Don’t let it start in one place and slowly spread. Get 100 brainwashed humans to drop it in 100 water reservoirs all at once across the world. No warning. No slow spreading, it’s all over the earth from day 1.
Don’t make one virus, make at least 100, each with different mechanisms of action. Good luck with the testing and vaccines.
Spread the finest misinformation. Detailed plausible and subtly wrong scientific papers.
Generally interfere with humanities efforts to fix the problem. Top vaccine scientists die in freak accidents.
Give the diseases a long incubation period where they are harmless but highly effective, then they turn leathal.
Make the diseases have mental effects. Make people confident that they aren’t infected, less cautious about infecting others, or if you can make everyone infected a high functioning psycopath plotting to infect as many other people as possible.
If I was a malicious AI trying to design a pandemic.
Don’t let it start in one place and slowly spread. Get 100 brainwashed humans to drop it in 100 water reservoirs all at once across the world. No warning. No slow spreading, it’s all over the earth from day 1.
Don’t make one virus, make at least 100, each with different mechanisms of action. Good luck with the testing and vaccines.
Spread the finest misinformation. Detailed plausible and subtly wrong scientific papers.
Generally interfere with humanities efforts to fix the problem. Top vaccine scientists die in freak accidents.
Give the diseases a long incubation period where they are harmless but highly effective, then they turn leathal.
Make the diseases have mental effects. Make people confident that they aren’t infected, less cautious about infecting others, or if you can make everyone infected a high functioning psycopath plotting to infect as many other people as possible.