By end of 2026 AI will enable creating any virus or nuclear weapon via AI agent.

By end of 2026 AI will enable creating any virus or nuclear weapon via AI agent. | So there's a window of time where the power of AI that percolates out to every country in the world is going to be ridiculous by the end of this year. You know, create any virus you want, create any nuclear weapon you want just working with your AI agent.

So there's a window of time where the power of AI that percolates out to every country in the world is going to be ridiculous by the end of this year. You know, create any virus you want, create any nuclear weapon you want just working with your AI agent.

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  "context": "So there's a window of time where the power of AI that percolates out to every country in the world is going to be ridiculous by the end of this year. You know, create any virus you want, create any nuclear weapon you want just working with your AI agent. So there's a window where we can start thinking about regulations that register the AI use cases and agents and chips and processing before chaos breaks out.",
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      "label": "Documented red-team finding: AI agent provides bioweapon recipe",
      "notes": "HIT — TIME piece reports AI chatbot providing detailed lethal-bioweapon recipe info.",
      "source": "https://time.com/7373405/weapons-of-mass-destruction-ai-security-gap/",
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      "expected_date": "2025-12-15",
      "observed_date": "2025-12-15",
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      "label": "King's College study: AI escalates to nuclear signaling in 95% of crises",
      "notes": "HIT — King's College arxiv 2602.14740 documents this finding.",
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