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Democratizing access to dual-use technologies

"Access to dual-use technologies can become easier because of GPAI model pro- liferation (in particular, open-source or open-weights models). Non-experts can use such dual-use-capable systems at a minimal cost [194, 100]. Improved model capabilities also contribute to dual-use risks posed by malicious actors. For example, an open-source base model for generating high quality sequence data can be modified to genera...

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AI Risk4. Malicious Actors & Misuse4.0 > Malicious use2 - Post-deployment

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"Access to dual-use technologies can become easier because of GPAI model pro- liferation (in particular, open-source or open-weights models). Non-experts can use such dual-use-capable systems at a minimal cost [194, 100]. Improved model capabilities also contribute to dual-use risks posed by malicious actors. For example, an open-source base model for generating high quality sequence data can be modified to generate candidate protein sequences for toxin synthesis [29]."

Domain4. Malicious Actors & Misuse
Subdomain4.0 > Malicious use
Entity1 - Human
Intent3 - Other
Timing2 - Post-deployment
CategoryImpacts of AI (General)
SubcategoryDemocratizing access to dual-use technologies

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