Bill Gates Warns of AI Bio-Terrorism Threat
You think it's odd to hear Bill Gates warning about a bio-terrorism
AI threat just weeks after he invested in the first ever
creation of 16 synthetic viruses using AI?
Yeah, it's absolutely absurd, and you can't even make it up.
Literally, two weeks ago, a paper was published in the journal
Science. The main author on that study was funded by Bill
Gates and his foundation, and they created the first ever
AI-made viruses, 16 of them,
functional bacterial phages. So they were able to replicate in
bacteria, kill the bacteria, and spawn new synthetic
bacterial phages. So he funded that study published two weeks ago,
and now he goes
on CNN warning of bio-terrorism from AI and
warning that we need to monitor all these people while he's the
one that spawned this into existence.
We need to monitor things like creating, uh, a
dangerous virus, uh, to, to see if that's
happening. These AIs have gotten dramatically more
powerful, even
faster than I expected. They're now capable of causing
bio-terrorism risk.
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