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Do You Worry About Bioengineering of Virals?
If human civilization goes extinct, will be the reason you mentioned nuclear war? Do you worry about this? A lot of people in the AI community worry about artificial general intelligence so super intelligent AI systems creating a lot of damage autonomous weapon systems is one possibility. If you want to be terrified, listen, somebody I talked to recently, Sam Harris did a four hour podcast on how bioengineering of viruses is likely to destroy human civilization. So apparently, they're in the space of bioengineering is becoming easier and easier and easier to engineer viruses, engineer pathogens.