Trained a frontier LLM and synthesized viruses in a lab: why he calls AI-bio doom 'total bogus'
JeremyNguyenPhD · x · 2026-09-14
David Bellamy claims to be among an extremely small group (n=1?) of people who have both trained a frontier LLM and designed and synthesized custom viruses in a lab with their own hands—and on that basis argues the "AI will kill us all by engineering dangerous viruses" takes are total bogus. Shared by Jeremy Nguyen as a striking non-fiction first line. A rare dual-background perspective on AI bio-risk, though presented as a claim without supporting detail.
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