Is AI going to wipe out all of humanity? Or is this so-called “existential risk” overblown? Let’s put a pin in that — there are already mass casualty AI disasters to contemplate before we get to extinction-level events. Chief among them, Vox’s Eric Levitz writes, is bioterror: The possibility that AI will enable today’s lone shooter to be tomorrow’s lone superspreader. And while the risks are real, there are also limits to how likely this scenario is to pass and some concrete ways we can try to prevent it.
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—Benjy Sarlin, senior editor, politics, policy, and ideas
