[ExI] My comments on Dario Amodei's essay

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 1:23 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> It would be very hard, probably impossible, to prohibit using AI to develop biological weapons. There are so many things this could include. A scenario that comes immediately to mind is using AI to determine the genetic markers that uniquely identify Han chinese (if this isn't already known), separately using AI to develop a means of making the relevant genetic markers readable by an external mechanism (such as an engineered virus), separately using AI to develop a way to render viruses inactive in the presence of such a marker.

FWIW, when I ran this by Ais, they said that last step would be much
harder to get past safety filters than the other steps.