I love watching NileRed/NileBlue on youtube - crazy chemist that does a lot of insane stuff. While it's obvious that he's very smart and probably way above the average, his education is still nothing that probably millions of people don't have:

> Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry with a minor in pharmacology

Watching him explain things has made me realize that knowing how to manufacture a very dangerous thing probably requires attending some classes and knowing how to read a paper. And the way he just casually orders dangerous materials makes me feel like there are just online stores with 2-day shipping after you upload your ID or something.

It also made me think that lack of specialized education would get me nowhere if I wanted to replicate whatever he's doing, even if an LLM guided me step-by-step, because I'd probably do something stupid (or AI would miss a crucial instruction/hallucinate) and kill myself first.

So my opinion on this is that people who could pose any danger were already posing it before LLMs and LLMs won't materially change that.

That’s not entirely true though, right? There have been plenty of bioweapon attacks

Ex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack