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Re:Yoshua Bengio: ‘The dangers of abuse are real’ by ZhuanXia on Friday April 05, 2019 @02:03PM (#19585356)
>The amount of resources and thus damage that an individual in a basement can do is rather limited.

It is for now. We will get to a point where a negative utilitarian with accesses to genome synthesis technology will be able to kill tens of millions. And this seems like it could become pretty feasible, even from a basement.

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Re:Yoshua Bengio: ‘The dangers of abuse are real’ by a1369209993 on Friday April 05, 2019 @03:01PM (#19585905)
You can do that in a basement without AI. And I think, given the topic, that's all I'm going to say on the matter.
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