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Iran is a country with over 90 million people - many are highly educated.
The story of the threat of AI and people making biological hazards is related to stochastic terrorism. Sharing dangerous information only an educated person would have to just about anyone. One particular concern is the potential for an amateur to combine the genes of lethal and infectious diseases to create something that will spread far, spread quickly, and destroy a lot.
If you are hearing a narrative that Iran will use LLMs to learn how to make bioweapons, that means that the source is highly confused and is crossing narratives without keeping track of what the actual foundations of the stories are. Please share the source.
It would be valuable information for me to see which institutions are starting to crack in their consent-manufacturing pipeline. I view this as a narrative failure that the boomers wouldn't have made. More evidence of the imperial system falling apart.
This is not far away from the "kamikaze Iranian dolphins", which didn't take into account that there is such thing as a dolphin-class submarine, and throwing kamikaze in there - because Iran.