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Those can be regulated because they require a level of physical access to materials. Centrifuges and viral samples and whatnot.

A given AI, once created, is "just" data. It can be sent around the world and run on commodity hardware. Nothing special needed beyond the expertise that created it in the first place.

Think of how relatively easy it is to clamp down on bioweapons, and compare that with our ability to stop malware.

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Training new SOTA (state-of-the-art) models does require a large amount of compute resources. So we could at least pause here and not make more powerful models publicly available until we understand the implications of wtf actually just happened over the last 6 months.

Certainly the models and weights that have been released publicly are out in the wild and near impossible to retract. That damage is done.

The same is largely true of bio weapons. The difficult but is R&D, but a small group with access to a decent collage lab could recreate some dangerous shit if the people using it knew what to do.

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