DeepSeek V4 Pro just scored 83.3 on Cybergym, beating Mythos's 83.2. That means open-source AI can now match closed labs at cyberattacks. Senator Bernie Sanders warned the CIA called AI a "digital nuclear weapon."
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Senator Sanders sent a formal letter to the CEOs of Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI demanding an immediate pause on AI development. His justification: AI is escaping human control and being used to create new viruses. This week we learned frighteningly that AI has been used for the first time ever to create a new virus. He goes on later to say, the moment is here. AI capabilities have reached a critical threshold. There is a reason why the heads— the head of the CIA says that AI models are akin to digital nuclear weapons and almost like a doomsday device.
Look, the cat's out of the bag. It's too late, right? Like, this is fundamentally it. Like, the adversaries will get more intelligent. We've discussed previously on this podcast how you have to stop the reagents, you have to stop the input processes for things like viruses, and that's something that's much more manageable. Takeoff is scary. DeepSeek V4 Pro, we just got some initial announcements that it's just come out. It scores 83.3 on Cybergym, whereas Mythos scored 83.2. Boom. The capability is open source that halted everything. Frontier Lab open source. Yeah. And that's on the cyberattacks now. And then, so yeah, unfortunately, I signed the pause letter 2 years ago because I was like, let's take a pause. It's too late now. So we have to, as you said, Build the swarms that defend. And although it sounds a bit crappy, the only thing that can stop a bad AI is a good AI. We really need really good AIs as soon as possible working for us.
