Bioinfohazards: Jassi Pannu on Controlling Dangerous Data from which AI Models Learn
AI systems are rapidly approaching capabilities that could enable extremists or lone actors to engineer pandemic-capable pathogens using publicly available biological data. Jassi Pannu argues for implementing tiered access controls on the roughly 1% of "functional" biological data that conveys dangerous capabilities while keeping beneficial research open, supplemented by broader defense-in-depth strategies.