> All of the lab work is performed by human scientists.
That doesn't mean the humans aren't meat puppets.
I think the odds of a human accidentally creating a novel virus or bioweapon at the behest of a rouge AI are pretty small to be honest. That's a lot of manual labor to go "oops I didn't realize what this was!"
In the short term you're probably right. But after a couple of years, complacency will take over and more and more decision making will get ofloaded. I don't think it's out of the question before 2030.
Are we anything else? Our complete behavior is shaped by our upbringing, media exposure, education. "Do we even have free will?"
No, but it also doesn’t make any difference, I think.
Not that I agree with the comment you're replying to - but I find this response funny, when just today there was a link on the front page about the US military bombing a school because of AI output
That you clearly only read the headline of
And what brings you to this very wrong impression?
Biosafety is a very real concern but "lab" is a big bucket, a molecular genetics lab can't synthesize new viruses out of thin air if it's not a virology lab. Sequencers sequence etc. The lab has the equipment it has.
It's okay, fable will not help them with any dangerous biology work...