Biological and nuclear attacks spawned by AI are real dangers
Predictor: Eric Schmidt · ep#241 "Eric Schmidt on the Robotics Race, Singularity Timeline, and Energy Shortage" · source
Prediction text
Biological and nuclear attacks spawned by AI are real dangers | There are biological dangers... like a biological attack, a nuclear attack that's spawned by these things
Verbatim quote
There are biological dangers... like a biological attack, a nuclear attack that's spawned by these things
Predictor: Eric Schmidt
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Milestone chain
- 2026-05-01 → 2026-06-22overdueFrontier lab discloses successful CBRN red-team finding requiring remediationHow: Anthropic/OpenAI/DeepMind responsible scaling policy report or system card discloses successful biological/chemical/nuclear uplift attempt by red team that triggered ASL/preparedness mitigationSource: Anthropic RSP cadence; OpenAI Preparedness; UK AISIconf 60%
- 2026-05-01 → 2026-06-22overdueAI Safety Institute publishes biological-uplift evaluation showing material riskHow: US AISI, UK AISI, or analog publishes evaluation finding LLM provides non-trivial uplift to bioweapon synthesis vs internet baselineSource: US/UK AISI MOUsconf 50%
- 2026-05-01 → 2026-09-30pendingConfirmed AI-assisted disinformation/hacking incident attributed by national CERTHow: CISA, FBI, or peer national CERT publicly attributes nation-state or non-state CBRN-precursor or critical-infra attack to LLM-assisted operationSource: training-window intelligence community trendsconf 45%
- 2026-09-01 → 2027-06-30pendingUS executive order or congressional bill restricts open-weight CBRN-relevant modelsHow: Executive order or law enacted that restricts release of >100B-parameter open-weight models lacking CBRN screeningSource: post-event policy cascadeconf 35%
- 2027-01-01 → 2030-12-31pendingConfirmed CBRN incident with attribution to AI-system upliftHow: WHO, IAEA, OPCW, or national authority publicly attributes a CBRN attack or attempt to AI-system-assisted planningSource: Schmidt warning verbatim cascadeconf 15%
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Evidence chain
Raw metadata
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Top incoming (parents)
Edges that influence THIS node's belief
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| killer | TK03 AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | 10.0% | 0.050 | 0.550 | +0.111 |
| killer | TK01 AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall) | 15.0% | 0.050 | 0.550 | +0.086 |
| killer | TK14 Superbubble Pop (S&P 500 -40%, Moonshot Capital Evaporates) | 20.0% | 0.050 | 0.550 | +0.061 |
| prereq | 238_009 Recursive self-improvement is already happening now (no long — Alex Wissner-Gross | 78.1% | 0.550 | 0.050 | +0.047 |
| prereq | SEM_008 Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will co — Dario Amodei | 76.9% | 0.550 | 0.050 | +0.041 |
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Predictions THIS node influences
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 231_013 Math is cooked (will be solved), physics cooked, biology cha — Alex Wissner-Gross | 35.4% | 0.620 | 0.050 | -0.066 |
| prereq | 241_043 ASI will arrive within 2 years to 5 years to this next decad — Peter Diamandis | 35.9% | 0.650 | 0.050 | -0.058 |
| prereq | CMQ_002 By 2028, AI systems will reach 'independent researcher' leve — Sam Altman | 31.4% | 0.550 | 0.050 | -0.055 |
| prereq | 235_030 Ray Kurzweil predicts Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) by 203 — Ray Kurzweil | 39.2% | 0.750 | 0.050 | -0.050 |
| prereq | 232_055 We're exiting the industrial age permanently as recursive se — Peter Diamandis | 35.5% | 0.700 | 0.050 | -0.033 |
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Beneficiaries (23)
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Prerequisites (8)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | SEM_008 | Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will commence sometime in 2025. | AI | — |
| prereq | 238_009 | Recursive self-improvement is already happening now (no longer three years out) | AI | — |
| prereq | 234_012 | Anthropic revenue will cross OpenAI revenue in middle of 2026 | Markets/Stocks | — |
| prereq | SEM_012 | Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling human headcount — achieved by deploying AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) across engineering. | AI/Manufacturing | — |
| prereq | SEM_042 | 2025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream. | AI/Agents | — |
| killer | TK14 | Superbubble Pop (S&P 500 -40%, Moonshot Capital Evaporates) | — | — |
| killer | TK01 | AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall) | — | — |
| killer | TK03 | AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | — | — |
Dependents (5)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 235_030 | Ray Kurzweil predicts Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) by 2033. | Biotech/Longevity | — |
| prereq | 232_055 | We're exiting the industrial age permanently as recursive self-improvement unfolds. | AI | — |
| prereq | 241_043 | ASI will arrive within 2 years to 5 years to this next decade | AI | — |
| prereq | 231_013 | Math is cooked (will be solved), physics cooked, biology char broiled. | AI | — |
| prereq | CMQ_002 | By 2028, AI systems will reach 'independent researcher' level — driving autonomous scientific discoveries without human intervention. | AI | — |
Linked documents (2)
| Sim | Source | Title | Market prob | Polarity | Reviewed | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.691 | arxiv | Brainrot: Deskilling and Addiction are Overlooked AI Risks | — | mentions | pending | 2026-05-05 |
| 0.576 | manifold | Do the recent deaths/disappearances of NASA, nuclear research, & defense-related scientists suggest something sinister? | 18% | mentions | pending | 2026-04-24 |
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