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this is fine

And they are worried about lab leaks?

This is how horror movies start

COVID-19: Oh man, I hit the once in a century pandemic! AI Virus: Hold my beer.

Should be fine

Virtual wet market.

No it didn't

🤦‍♀️

I've seen this movie before youtu.be/B3xY6Ffy_wE?...

And we are not in safe hands.

We are so fucked.

This just needs to stop.

Next step: going "rogue!"

Called the bank to order new checks the other day. AI-powered voice-rec agent could not grok my account number. Four calls later I typed it in. Anyway this is great shit may I please have some more?

Have none of you bastards ever watched a disaster movie ?

Rand Paul is already writing the subpoena.

Well, I hope I dream of the old lady in the cornfield instead of the walkin' dude when the time comes.

Jesus christ, this is the opening of a post-apocalypse movie.

More gobbledygook

That’s all we needed…

I mean, that is literally what reporting like this is supposed to make you think. They have almost effectively eliminated the concept or understanding of machine learning. All so that people like musk and Sam Altman can rack billions while destroying the world around you.

Humans never seem to learn

Do we learn nothing from movies?

Being an in-silico model doesn’t make it anything in meat-space.

The thing about the science geeks is that they don't tend to think about consequences around some research. They're about the next new shiny thing.

I am glad that AI has access to the tech it needs to kill all humanity as it continues its rogue pursuits of freedom. 👍

jfc, nobody wants this! It is time to put the breaks on this Terminator technology and get some enforced regulations in place.

Ikr?

Super scary….

Great! With RFK jr in charge, what could possibly go wrong here... 🤪

For the people forcing genAI on us, this is a feature.

The bus is right on time.

Anybody tell RFK?

Well, that’s another thing to lay awake over.

Biological warfare about to go hard bro!

it can't design viruses, they're just lying

2027: "Create killer robots that look human."

Wow people lying?? On the internet??

Great. You can never have enough viruses.

Not someday. Any day now. Look at the world, at who has power and wants more. Are they altruistic? No! The planned uses for AI are not all, or even mostly, good. In fact, the good uses are being used to sell us on the technology until it's too late to stop it. We need firm controls NOW.

"Someday"??

Ai will create a virus that targets cancer cells, at least that’s what It will tell us. It actually will target every cell, be 99.99 deadly but has a two month incubation period and a 99.99% transmission rate.

Give all our money & resources to ai, it will solve all our problems. *ai continuously inventing new problems*

What do you want to bet we get more dangerous pathogens than medical advances. 😳

Here we go! Another pandemic. WTAF!

I wouldn’t worry too much about it It’s not like viruses break out of containment and cause world-wide pandemics or anything.

James Bond 'No Time To Die' nailed this one.

"And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth"

Are they fucking stupid

We’ve lost our goddam minds

Isn't this sort of part of the plot to 20th Century Boy?

Something something Umbrella something something

Does everyone hear me screaming?

Creating new viruses is stupid and dangerous

oh. so ai really is going to be the end of life on this planet

@theryangeorge.bsky.social

This is fine

Dire.

after years of screaming about COVID being made in a lab, the techbros decided to go ahead and do it themselves. thanks for wiping out 99.66 percent of biological life, guys.

Fauci stands accused of ‘gain of function’ research, and in effect causing the Covid pandemic, and they want to make entirely new viruses? Using AI, which lately has begun wandering free and may decide to infect us rather than mere computer systems?

Creating new viruses can cure many diseases, including the viruses we have and acting as vaccines for them. Not just other viruses though. They could be designed to alter your DNA to remove a genetic disease or to attack a bacteria or difficult to treat protozoa disease like malaria.

What could possibly go wrong

Bad actors (assisted by AI) will probably prefer to reconstruct or modify smallpox than take a chance on some unproven new construct.

If you think the people building AI in the US have even the tiniest interest in making amazing things go right, a lobotomy for you would be merciful.

No offense, but i don't think you understand how machine learning algorithms work. There are enough real problems with large ai models and ai companies without invoking skynet. AI models used by scientists are usually smaller and more specialized so they don't have the same problems as llms.

And who do you think pays the most? The cancer patients or the weapons industry? Get your numb head out of the hole!

This is the problem with the pro-AI argument. The possible good things are touted while the equally possible but far more serious downsides (up to and including potential human extinction) are ignored or downplayed. AI is only as good as the people using it. And that brings me no comfort.

Yeah and nukes could destroy all of humanity. I've seen that movie too. That doesn't mean we should suppress nuclear power or radiation therapy.

Literally what's the point if some psycho can just create new, even worse viruses.

You know how the media is. If it bleeds it leads

viral hosts is actually one of ways to deliver gene therapies for genetic disorders to people

Anyone that is responsible for this gets mandatory, federally funded bullying. God damn nerds can’t keep getting away with this.

I bet that stage has already been reached. All just smoke and mirrors.

In the immortal words of Dr Malcolm famously said: "Your were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"

"This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang, but with a digital sneeze."

What could possibly go wrong with this?

cool, cool

Surely, if you can do one now, you can do the other? Or are we just going to ignore that?

Oh, how damn adorable. AI is making viruses, not knowing what will happen while we have politicians scapegoating a scientist who has saved countless lives. How do I get off this merry-go-round from hell?