Until these same people start being concerned about DIY CRISPR kits, I do not take them seriously:

https://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/

This is dangerous in ways that require no leaps of logic or hypothetical sci-fi scenarios to imagine.

But no we are talking about banning math.

This is a combination of cynical people pushing for regulatory capture and smart people being dumb in the highly sophisticated very verbose ways that smart people are dumb.

Holy shit. That's legitimately terrifying.

I've seen Yudkowsky and others saying that AI and biotech are both in the unusual bin of threats to all humanity, exceptions to his belief that most things are overregulated. (paraphrase of tweets from memory)