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> See: global warming, nuclear weapon development, wealth inequality, war, technology dependence, etc.

The difference is that none of those are available to individuals.

Not to be completely pedantic, but the fact that one, and only one, individual in the United States of America can deploy any of their 5000+ nuclear weapons undermines this argument. Furthermore, LLMs (as they are today) which pose the treats mentioned in TFA, are expressly not available to individuals (for the time being). However, my point was never about individuals, but rather of systematic incentive structures which actively make pathways to specific harms possible—if not probable.

Sure, but deployment is not development.

> Furthermore, LLMs (as they are today) which pose the treats mentioned in TFA, are expressly not available to individuals (for the time being).

The future is a thing.

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