My assumption (as someone with a molecular biology degree) is that most of the barriers to making a bioweapon are more practical than theoretical, much like making a bomb, which really decreases the benefit of a Large Language Model. There's a crucial difference between knowing how to make a bomb and being able to do it without blowing off your own fingers - although for a pandemic bioweapon incompetance just results in contamination with harmless bacteria, so it's a less dangerous fail state. A would-be bioterrorist should probably just enroll in an... (read more)
My assumption (as someone with a molecular biology degree) is that most of the barriers to making a bioweapon are more practical than theoretical, much like making a bomb, which really decreases the benefit of a Large Language Model. There's a crucial difference between knowing how to make a bomb and being able to do it without blowing off your own fingers - although for a pandemic bioweapon incompetance just results in contamination with harmless bacteria, so it's a less dangerous fail state. A would-be bioterrorist should probably just enroll in an... (read more)