Op-Ed: Good AI, Bad AI – The hype, the babble, and weaponization of AI as a threat - Digital Journal

To this day, one of the most dangerous weapons on Earth is a box of matches. The problem is that AI is perfectly capable of being a superweapon and nobody's looking at slamming on the brakes. There was a rather gruesome article in VOX in March this year which spelled out some of the risks. AI could discover both super-drugs and super-weapons. The same applies to bioweapons and similar "learnable" threats.