Excellent point Vladimir. My team has been thinking a lot about this issue. What if somebody leaked the latest AlphaFold, and instructions on how to make good use of it? If you could feed the instructions into an existing open-source model, and get functional python code out to interact with the private AlphaFold API you set up… That’s a whole lot more dangerous than an LLM alone!
As the whole space of ‘biological design tools’ (h/t Anjali for this term to describe the general concept) gets more capable and complex, the uplift from an LLM that can help you navigate and utilize these tools gets more dangerous. A lot of these computational tools are quite difficult to use effectively for a layperson, yet an AI can handle them fairly easily if given the documentation.
Excellent point Vladimir. My team has been thinking a lot about this issue. What if somebody leaked the latest AlphaFold, and instructions on how to make good use of it? If you could feed the instructions into an existing open-source model, and get functional python code out to interact with the private AlphaFold API you set up… That’s a whole lot more dangerous than an LLM alone!
As the whole space of ‘biological design tools’ (h/t Anjali for this term to describe the general concept) gets more capable and complex, the uplift from an LLM that can help you navigate and utilize these tools gets more dangerous. A lot of these computational tools are quite difficult to use effectively for a layperson, yet an AI can handle them fairly easily if given the documentation.