WASHINGTON : Both Democratic and Republican senators expressed alarm on Tuesday about the potential for a malevolent use of artificial intelligence, focusing on the possibility of AI being used to create a biological attack.
"Certain steps in bioweapons production involve knowledge that can't be found on Google or in textbooks and requires a high level of expertise," said Amodei, whose company worked with biosecurity experts on a study of biological risks arising from AI."We found that today's AI tools can fill in some of these steps."
"By enabling many more actors to carry out large-scale biological attacks, we believe this represents a grave threat to U.S. national security," he said."The experts building these systems are warning of human extinction," he said in opening remarks."The goal for this hearing is to lay the ground for legislation. To go from general principles, to specific recommendations. To use this hearing to write laws.