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The paper by Hendrycks, Mazeika and Woodside of June 2023 names malicious use as one of four sources of catastrophic AI risk and states that AI-assisted bioweapons could constitute an existential threat by enlarging the number of people able to create pandemics. Copy claim link
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Date 2023-06-21 · publication Records dated 2023 → Role Most developed, Earliest located use of the name Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Name used “malicious use” Scope and limits The paper presents scenarios and mechanisms, not estimates; it treats malicious use alongside AI race, organisational risks and rogue AIs without ranking them.
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An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks ↗ arXiv:2306.12001 · 2023-06-21
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Source excerpt “Malicious use. Actors could intentionally harness powerful AIs to cause widespread harm.” Location in source Section 1, PDF p. 3
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Source details and check notes Authors Dan Hendrycks; Mantas Mazeika; Thomas Woodside Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 9df5eca6a17e1c3f1482ccde84eb508cd7dc3c0eb5139cd0770a66a47edb85da). arXiv v1 PDF (2306.12001v1). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Dan Hendrycks, Mantas Mazeika, Thomas Woodside, “An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks”, 2023-06-21. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (12 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks ↗ arXiv:2306.12001 · 2023-06-21
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Source excerpt “Engineered pandemics from AI-assisted bioweapons pose a unique challenge, as attackers have an advantage over defenders and could constitute an existential threat to humanity.” Location in source Section 2.1, PDF p. 7
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Source details and check notes Authors Dan Hendrycks; Mantas Mazeika; Thomas Woodside Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 9df5eca6a17e1c3f1482ccde84eb508cd7dc3c0eb5139cd0770a66a47edb85da). arXiv v1 PDF (2306.12001v1). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Dan Hendrycks, Mantas Mazeika, Thomas Woodside, “An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks”, 2023-06-21. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (24 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks ↗ arXiv:2306.12001 · 2023-06-21
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Source excerpt “With AI assistants, orders of magnitude more people could have the required skills, thereby increasing the risks by orders of magnitude.” Location in source Section 2.1, PDF p. 8
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Source details and check notes Authors Dan Hendrycks; Mantas Mazeika; Thomas Woodside Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 9df5eca6a17e1c3f1482ccde84eb508cd7dc3c0eb5139cd0770a66a47edb85da). arXiv v1 PDF (2306.12001v1). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Dan Hendrycks, Mantas Mazeika, Thomas Woodside, “An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks”, 2023-06-21. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI (research/risk-debate). The quotation (21 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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