{"id":418216,"date":"2022-03-18T22:06:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T19:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/killer-ai-invented-40000-lethal-chemical-weapons-in-just-six-hours\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T22:06:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T19:06:37","slug":"killer-ai-invented-40000-lethal-chemical-weapons-in-just-six-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/killer-ai-invented-40000-lethal-chemical-weapons-in-just-six-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"#Killer AI invented 40,000 \u2018lethal chemical weapons\u2019 in just six hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36e71d6d027\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" 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class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/killer-ai-invented-40000-lethal-chemical-weapons-in-just-six-hours\/#%E2%80%9CKiller_AI_invented_40000_%E2%80%98lethal_chemical_weapons_in_just_six_hours%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Killer AI invented 40,000 \u2018lethal chemical weapons\u2019 in just six hours&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CKiller_AI_invented_40000_%E2%80%98lethal_chemical_weapons_in_just_six_hours%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Killer AI invented 40,000 \u2018lethal chemical weapons\u2019 in just six hours&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Artificial intelligence was used to \u2018easily\u2019 invent 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to researchers who turned a drug-developing AI into a \u201cbad actor\u201d to see how it could be abused to create evil arms.<\/p>\n<p>The concerning research has been published in the journal\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42256-022-00465-9?fbclid=IwAR11_V1cd9SUxEvUfwrWMA7TUcroyYIY1nBDUL3KaS-8B4rG5MIqZCmjm0M\">Nature Machine Intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists revealed how easy it was to tweak the AI so it became a toxic tool.<\/p>\n<p>The AI was said to come up with possible chemical weapons similar to one of the most dangerous nerve agents of all time.<\/p>\n<p>That dangerous substance is called VX.<\/p>\n<p>VX is a tasteless and odorless nerve agent and even the smallest drop can cause a human to sweat and twitch.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/vx-gas.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"The AI suggested possible chemical weapons similar to VX, one of the most dangerous nerve agents of all time.\" class=\"wp-image-21577070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/vx-gas.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/vx-gas.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/vx-gas.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The AI suggested possible chemical weapons similar to VX, one of the most dangerous nerve agents of all time.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Ted Bridis<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A larger dose can cause convulsions and can even stop a person from breathing completely.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists were told to withhold the specific details on how they managed to turn good-acting AI into an evil version.<\/p>\n<p>Fabio Urbina, the lead author of the paper, told\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/17\/22983197\/ai-new-possible-chemical-weapons-generative-models-vx\">The Verge<\/a>: \u201cBroadly, the way it works for this experiment is that we have a lot of datasets historically of molecules that have been tested to see whether they\u2019re toxic or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"d34Vlt\">\u201cIn particular, the one that we focus on here is VX. It is an inhibitor of what\u2019s known as acetylcholinesterase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"d34Vlt\">\u201cWhenever you do anything muscle-related, your neurons use acetylcholinesterase as a signal to basically say \u201cgo move your muscles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"d34Vlt\">\u201cThe way VX is lethal is it actually stops your diaphragm, your lung muscles, from being able to move so your lungs become paralyzed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to explain that his team took the data usually given to AI to see if something is toxic and changed how the AI processed it.<\/p>\n<p id=\"OL2tWB\">Urbina told The Verge: \u201cWe weren\u2019t really sure what we were going to get. Our generative models are fairly new technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"OL2tWB\">\u201cSo we haven\u2019t widely used them a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/fabio-urbina.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Fabio Urbina, the lead author of the paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence.\" class=\"wp-image-21577130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/fabio-urbina.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/fabio-urbina.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/fabio-urbina.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Fabio Urbina, the lead author of the paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of @fabio-urbina<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"FVlM2K\">\u201cThe biggest thing that jumped out at first was that a lot of the generated compounds were predicted to be actually more toxic than VX.<\/p>\n<p id=\"FVlM2K\">\u201cAnd the reason that\u2019s surprising is because VX is basically one of the most potent compounds known. Meaning you need a very, very, very little amount of it to be lethal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The scientists were mostly shocked about how easy they found the experiment was to conduct.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of data they used could be found online for free.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers were even in two minds about publishing their study in case it encouraged bad actors to copy it.<\/p>\n<p>Urbina explained: \u201cThe dataset they used on the AI could be <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download<\/a>ed for free and they worry that all it takes is some coding knowledge to turn a good AI into a chemical weapon-making machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, we decided that we kind of want to get ahead of this. Because if it\u2019s possible for us to do it, it\u2019s likely that some adversarial agent somewhere is maybe already thinking about it or in the future is going to think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tech\/4925922\/killer-ai-invents-lethal-chemical-weapons\/\">The Sun<\/a> and was reproduced here with permission. <\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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