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this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2026
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Not sure if this was posted here before: TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists
Ahhh yes, my old friend, the uh, dia-, um, what was it again, oh, yeah, D'yer Mak'er back-to-the-future
tinfoil hat time:
I am reminded of reading how some rationalists argued for using bioweapons on "unaligned" frontier ai researchers, and also how the fbi has raided illegal suburban biolabs recently recently, and anthropic's recent announcement that they're starting a biolab.Probably completely unconnected, but something in the zeitgeist, at least.
Anthropic: AI MIGHT KILL US ALL WITH A BIOWEAPON
Also Anthropic: starts an AI-run bio lab. If it's run to the same standards as the cybersecurity division I can't imagine it's going to be particularly well-supervised.
Do you want to get T-Virus? Because this feels like how you get T-Virus.
A former disciple says that Soryu Forall startted out wanting to exterminate humanity with a bioweapon and only pivoting to enlightening humanity later on. S.E. Gyges or his chatbot were speculating when they accused a specific Rationalist of dreaming of omnicide, but the idea is circulating in the milieu.
That post is login-protected, what does it say?
handy tip: all of skeeter is open, and you can bypass the login gate with eg skyview.social
Somebody tracked down things related to the 'AI bioweapons' stuff and a lot of them are financed by EA/related orgs apparantly. There is a preprint: https://ironholds.org/resources/papers/aixbio_one.pdf
"We tracked the space financially, intellectually, and individually. Financially, 70% of the literature that disclosed funding was directly supported by EA orgs; 71% of the literature that didn’t disclose funding featured authors from funded orgs. We're talking hundreds of millions of dollars."