It’s a bit ambiguous, but I personally interpreted the Center for Humane Technology’s claims here in a way that would be compatible with Dario’s comments:
“Today, certain steps in bioweapons production involve knowledge that can’t be found on Google or in textbooks and requires a high level of specialized expertise — this being one of the things that currently keeps us safe from attacks,” he added.
He said today’s AI tools can help fill in “some of these steps,” though they can do this “incompletely and unreliably.” But he said today’s AI is already showing these “nascent signs of danger,” and said his company believes it will be much closer just a few years from now.
“A straightforward extrapolation of today’s systems to those we expect to see in two to three years suggests a substantial risk that AI systems will be able to fill in all the missing pieces, enabling many more actors to carry out large-scale biological attacks,” he said. “We believe this represents a grave threat to U.S. national security.”
If Tristan Harris was, however, making the stronger claim that jailbroken Llama 2 could already supply all the instructions to produce anthrax, that would be much more concerning than my initial read.
It’s a bit ambiguous, but I personally interpreted the Center for Humane Technology’s claims here in a way that would be compatible with Dario’s comments:
If Tristan Harris was, however, making the stronger claim that jailbroken Llama 2 could already supply all the instructions to produce anthrax, that would be much more concerning than my initial read.