Einem neuen RAND-Bericht zufolge entwickelt sich die KI schneller zum „Pathogen-Architekten“, als wir sie regulieren können.

This RAND Corporation report highlights a critical and often overlooked X-risk: the democratization of biological weapon design through Large Language Models. While much of the current AI safety debate focuses on job loss or generalized „alignment,“ this research shows that AI is already capable of closing the technical knowledge gap for bad actors to engineer airborne pathogens.
In the context of the future, this raises massive questions about how we can maintain an „open“ AI ecosystem while preventing the dissemination of lethal biological blueprints. If an AI can act as a virtual lab assistant for a pathogen architect, our current regulatory frameworks for both biotech and AI are effectively obsolete. We need to discuss whether the future of AI safety requires „biological guardrails“ that are just as robust as the digital ones we are currently failing to build. How do we balance scientific progress with the very real risk of an AI-assisted pandemic?