Researcher who trained LLMs and synthesized viruses calls AI bio-doom fears bogus
tobowers · x · 2026-09-14
DavidRBellamy, who claims to be among a tiny group having both trained a frontier LLM and designed/synthesized custom viruses in a lab, argues fears of AI killing humanity via engineered viruses are "total bogus." Reposting it, jbrukh frames this as the basic take of any domain expert who has spent real time getting models to do expert-level work.
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