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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (27 children)

But... shouldn't it? I mean, if everyone had a nuke, the world would look a whole lot different

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (22 children)

Since I don't think this analogy works, you shouldn't stop there, but actually explain how the world would look like if everyone had access to AI technology (advanced enough to be comparable to a nuke), vs how it would look like if only a small elite had access to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Okay, well, if everyone had access to an AGI, anyone could design and distribute a pathogen that could wipe out a significant portion of the population. Then again, you'd have the collective force of everyone else's AI countering that plot.

I think that putting that kind of power into the hands of everyone shouldnt be done lightly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're just gonna print the pathogens with the pathogen printer? You understand that getting the information doesn't mean you're able to produce it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I need an article on how a 3d printer can be used to print an underground chemistry lab to produce these weapons grade pathogens

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the thing though: a sufficiently advanced intelligence will know how. You don't have to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know how to build a barn. Doesn't mean I can do it by myself with no tools or materials.

Turns out that building and operating a lab that can churn out bespoke pathogens is actually even more difficult and expensive than that.

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