Chollet on AI bio-risks: not panic, but take proliferation seriously
fchollet · x · 2026-08-31
François Chollet discusses the potential for AI progress to spill over into biology, causing extinction-level pandemics. He argues that while biology differs from cybersecurity due to non-verifiability and physical bottlenecks, the risk is plausible because synthetic pandemics might already be feasible without AI, and AI could proliferate these capabilities to unprepared actors.
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