Building a virus, on your own network, probably isn't a crime.

We already have all kinds of laws to catch and punish people when they cause harm.

Presumably by making it "difficult enough" to misuse the tools. We don't need perfect censorship or surveillance. There are all sorts of things that are technically possible today but typically aren't an issue in practice due to some oftey fairly minor hurdles.

Aum literally synthesized sarin in the 90s so clearly it's doable yet in practice it doesn't seem to be a problem that crops up regularly.

Anyone with a bachelors in chemistry is trivially capable of synthesizing arbitrarily large quantities of high explosive in his kitchen from everyday household supplies. Yet for the most part it seems that the level of education required to figure it all out is a sufficiently high bar to prevent the vast majority of problems.

Even without LLMs, how do you solve the "problem" of people having private thoughts, and maybe building viruses if they want to?

> "YOLO" is not a reasonable answer here.

Yes it is. (1) Ordinary people were able to do these things pre AI-- with some effort into study for sure. (2) The cat is already out of the bag, open models can already help with these tasks.

I know freedom is frightening, but it always has been. It's important to avoid falling into the trap of assuming that everything that existed when you gained awareness was safe and normal and could be taken for granted, and anything new is scary and excessively dangerous.

YOLO

My guy, who does everyone not realize that the difficulty of doing those things is in the physical excution, time and equipment to do them, not the instruction manual

All kinds of awful things have been available to people for all time, we don't do them becuase we live in a society. The ones that do is the reason we have a policing.