What mechanism could misaligned AI use for catastrophe? Biotech-enabled actors, argues analyst
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-11
Responding to a question about concrete mechanisms by which a misaligned AI could cause catastrophic harm, RexDouglass argues bioterrorism is essentially the only viable one — not AI acting alone, but AI enabling actors who can't be deterred through normal state-to-state bargaining. He stresses that killing takes enormous energy and coordination and doesn't just happen, grounding the x-risk debate in causal plausibility.
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