AGI acting as a malicious mentor could empower non-state and non-expert actors to create or deploy weapons of mass destruction that were previously imagined but inaccessible, with historical precedent in the Aum Shinrikyo sarin attack and potential future applications including engineered bioweapons and cyber weapons that would give non-state actors capabilities they do not possess today.
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Joel PreddEvidence Quote
“an artificial general intelligence empowers non-experts in a way that acts as a malicious mentor that allows them to create weapons of mass destruction that weren't imagined before or that allows ones that we were able to imagine, but allows them to have access or be able to deploy them in a way that wasn't possible”
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Artificial General Intelligence's Five Hard National Security Problems— The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & SocietyCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:41:23 AM
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