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I have seen a few opinion columnists like Noah Smith pass on "what if the AI engineers a lethal virus?" Biosecurity seems like a mundane wonky policy issue like making farmers provide toilets to their workers and checking the beef for BSE.
As is so often the case, I honestly don't know what's supposed to be different about our response to gengineered superplagues if they were made by an AI instead of the CIA or whoever else is in on that nonsense.