Will AI help start the next pandemic? (With Hamza Chaudhry)

Skeptics of catastrophic AI risks raise a reasonable question: How exactly can something that lives on a computer do harm in the real world? Hamza Chaudhry, a national security expert at The Future of Life Institute, joined me on The Argument’s Substack live last week, where he and I discussed how AI can augment threats from biosecurity to nuclear weapons. Which threats are imminent? What are the impediments? How do we defend against these possibilities? Watch the video above for the full conversation.