alt Hacker NewsI still don't know why all these concern about nuclear weapons with LLMs. It is not that if an entity (A country) wants to develop a nuclear weapons that the resources they need for such a program and huge infrastructure and scientific enterprise would need an LLM to teach them anything. Knowing how to develop one is not a closed secret but getting in secret is impossible without the whole world knowing.
So I wouldn't be able to develop a nuclear weapons with the resources of drug cartal (as an example) using Claude in secret.
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> in secret is impossible without the whole world knowing.
I'm curious about why this is
Outside of an actual test detonation, presumably this could all happen in a secure place?
> Knowing how to develop one is not a closed secret but getting in secret is impossible without the whole world knowing.
You can get away with a dirty contamination bomb and that detonating in down town Manhattan will scare the shit out of millions of people even the ones in New Jersey. Or, you know, just fly a plane into a really tall building and get the state you are attacking itself to get into a hysteria breakdown.
But yeah I agree with you. There is no point in these restrictions except for government bureaucrats to gain power and control over a domain.
It’s moral panic. People need big unambiguously evil things to be scared of, and most are too lazy to think of one for themselves, so they glom onto whichever one is presented to them / caters to their community
It still lowers the bar to have an interactive encyclopedia that can diagnose your issue at hand. Maybe you can divide your team by two, or reduce your development time.
A high school kid tried to build a nuclear reactor as a science project a while back, getting his mom's house designated as a superfund cleanup site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn