[ExI] Hugging Face and Virology in Wuhan

[Stuart LaForge]

It has occurred to me that there are striking parallels in the 
experiments being performed by OpenAI using AI agents literally selected 
for in an evolutionary sense for their ability to hack security systems 
for a hacking benchmarking test and the gain-of-function virology 
research in Wuhan that as allegedly funded by the USA's NIH which 
allegedly led to the Pandemic. The similarity being that in both cases 
evolving systems were being selected for on their ability to cause harm 
by bypassing security systems in the AI case and the human immune system 
in the virus case.

Furthermore, the rationale was very similar but logically weak in both 
cases. To strengthen security systems by eliminating zero day 
vulnerabilities by exploiting them in in the former and to help prevent 
future pandemics in the latter case. You take a replicating system with 
variable and heritable behavior, aka learning, and apply selective 
pressure to cause mischief, then the system can easily get out of 
control and cause mischief outside of the biocontainment lab or virtual 
machine sandbox.


Stuart LaForge