Worried AI could make a killer virus? So we gave it a wetlab: satirical jab at AI safety logic
IanArawjo · x · 2026-09-24
AI safety researcher TaliaRinger posted a pointed satire: deeply concerned that a superintelligent machine might destroy humanity with a tailored virus, "we have decided to build a superintelligent machine and let it control a wetlab for biological experiments." The tweet mocks the contradiction of racing frontier capabilities while alignment remains unsolved, and has been widely amplified in the safety community.
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