Someone who has both trained a frontier LLM and engineered viruses argues the bioweapon scenario is impractical.

David Bellamy posted a six-point rebuttal to the AI-supervirus scenario being used to justify this month's slowdown arguments, and it got traction precisely because of his dual background (r/singularity). His claims: viral bioweapon production needs multiple expensive facilities with instruments never designed for automation, building such a facility is hard to hide, operating it requires inputs from DNA synthesis and biotech suppliers inside a monitored and legally controlled supply chain, and efficacy can't be established without human testing that mouse models don't substitute for. One person's thread, not a paper, and the most specific technical counter to the bio-risk case I've seen this cycle.