Disclaimer that I am practically a layman on this topic.
My threat model is that creating bioweapons requires a series of steps that are getting easier and easier to do, and LLMs are significantly accelerating one of these steps.
In that sense, open-sourcing LLMs does contribute to increased biorisk, but the action of restricting open-source LLMs to restrict the increase in biorisk seems a disproportionate response by itself?
For example, the internet certainly increased the ease of conducting terrorism, but many people would consider it a disproportionate response to heavily restrict the internet just to restrict terrorism.
Disclaimer that I am practically a layman on this topic.
My threat model is that creating bioweapons requires a series of steps that are getting easier and easier to do, and LLMs are significantly accelerating one of these steps.
In that sense, open-sourcing LLMs does contribute to increased biorisk, but the action of restricting open-source LLMs to restrict the increase in biorisk seems a disproportionate response by itself?
For example, the internet certainly increased the ease of conducting terrorism, but many people would consider it a disproportionate response to heavily restrict the internet just to restrict terrorism.