One of the easiest and most effective AI regulations would be to simply require all these labs to run all incoming requests through a suite of the most advanced models asking if the request is likely to be a pathogenic agent.

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estearum an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Yes probably true. Unfortunately we need only one defector lab to severely degrade the overall effectiveness of this approach (leaving aside the effectiveness of the detection models themselves).

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wat10000 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Who’s going to simply require that? There are ~200 sovereign nations on the planet, they’re not all going to do it, or have effective enforcement if they do.

	▲	ben_w 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		This is the kind of thing that would be relatively easy to convince nations to sign up to; actually enforcing, I suspect you're right. there's not an obvious benefit to being the one nation that says "you know what? We want to be known as 'the nation whose biolab insecurity wrecked the world', because taking blame works out so well for everyone.", though I'm fairly sure a large portion of the world will be totally willing to wargame the impact of hosting a lab as a deadman switch so nobody else attacks them first…

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dgellow an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

That’s one interesting way to generate demand for AI vendors if the AI bet doesn’t pay off /s