Thank you for taking this seriously enough to write this, and anyone else likewise.

But this is attacking a strawman, amateur bioterrorists. AI is a force multiplier in the hands of an expert. If it took a team before, maybe a single malicious actor can accomplish it now that AI can fill in the parts they aren't well-versed in. And that dramatically increases the chance of it happening.

Being at risk of killing yourself also just makes success X% less likely, but if X < 90 that doesn't mitigate much.

    But this seems like it's attacking a strawman. AI is a force multiplier in the hands of an expert. If it took a team before, maybe a single malicious actor can accomplish it now that AI can fill in the parts they aren't well-versed in. And that dramatically increases the chance of it happening.

I want to ask you a question, do you feel like that this is the problem being solved by all these "safety" features?

Let me put this another way, do these "guardrails" and this "safety" exists for the NSA-variant of Mythos? Or, the ones that are run as a part of Maven?

How does stopping me from asking about rabbit sex protect you from nut jobs with a security clearance using these systems to go off and make weapons?

Because this has happened before. The only successful bioweapons attack in US history was done by a guy who worked at Fort Detrick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks

The only private organization successful enough to make biological and chemical weapons is Aum Shinrikyo and they had university affiliation and nearly a billion dollars in the 1990s.

The guy who led Aum's bioweapons program was

    Seiichi Endo was born in 1961 and attended Obihiro university of Agricultural and Veterinary Medicine. After graduating, he became a student at the Kyoto university medical school research department focusing on AIDS-related gene research at the viral research center. He joined Aum in 1987, became a monk in 1988 and later led Aum’s biological weapons program.

    Among some of Japan's "best and brightest" who joined the cult included a former researcher of the National Space Development Agency of Japan, an expert on chemical weapons who majored in organic physics at Tsukuba University, a researcher who studied elementary particles, a reporter with a major Japanese newspaper, a physicist from Osaka University, a cardiac specialist, and an organic chemist, to name a few.

and,

    Through its network, Aum Shinrikyo successfully recruited over 300 scientists and engineers—including employees at the Kurchatov Institute, the premier nuclear facility in Russia—who were either attracted to the apocalyptic ideology or lured with financial incentives.50 Aum Shinrikyo’s Russian contacts enabled group members to access black market materials and hardware.

    In response, the cult constructed the $30 million USD Satyan 7 facility which was equipped with three laboratories, a computer control center, and five reactors, all of which was made from corrosion-resistant Hastelloy, ideal for the production of chemical weapons

It's because they'd recruited members of the military, bribed local policemen and politicians, and used their sway to silence critics (or kill them).

How does stopping me from asking Claude about rabbit sex stop people like them?

From where I'm standing, Anthropic and OpenAI would have sold Aum a subscription.

The Fort Detrick guy would have access via the US Government and Aum had university affiliation. I am yet to read a serious proposal that actually deals with these risks and the other real risks of this technology. In fact, I've never seen people talk about the true risk of these models; one that is already in motion.