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Yes, if AI can do this, expect AI to also find diseases that are perfect bioweapons...such as a long-lasting common cold that merely weakens you for months, and is extremely contagious. Perfect for weakening an entire country before invasion, without even a hint that it actually is a bioweapon until it's too late.

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Weapons that attack the entire planet are not perfect.

They will be when our robot overlords want to get rid of us. :-)

This assumes robots would want to be friend with each other, because robots. They'd probably wipe each other out very efficiently too and they would probably be able to do it without the use of weapons, it would just be cyber warfare.

No weapon in the history of mankind has ever been perfect.

Loads of things can be used as inefficient weapons, for example we could be worried about rouge states developing methods of dropping dead cows from zeppelins.

You jest, but launching dead cows from catapults was indeed a medieval siege tactic.

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