Half or more of Hacker News is constantly pushing the idea that frontier LLMs are stochastic parrots and basically useless, even in the face of the Hugging Face incident which most people also would have described as movie plot fiction until it happened. I expect biologists are even less well versed in the abilities of frontier models.

What's more, you can just try a jailbreak on a model yourself to see just how much detailed, step-by-step direction you can get to build bio-terror materials.