I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus

110 50 24 Share Opinion writer and economist Noah Smith just dropped an article about AI-designed superviruses. Oh man. I used to think Smith was a person with informed opinions, but reading his take on a topic close to my own expertise makes me question this premise. No worries though. I’m sure I’ll read his takes on inflation tomorrow and nod along. Gell-Mann amnesia is real.

Photo by Jei Lee on Unsplash The article opens with a fictitious story about a disgruntled teenager in 2029 1 who asks an AI to design some lethal viruses, which he then deploys and ends up killing 90% of the human population.