Bioterror via AI was mocked as doomerism just a few years ago
AndyMasley · x · 2026-09-06
Andy Masley points out that only a few years ago, the idea of AI enabling bioterrorism or cyber attacks was dismissed as the ridiculous doomer position distracting from the 'immediate obvious' AI threats of the time — a marker of how quickly the AI risk discourse has shifted toward formerly fringe concerns.
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