How ChatGPT could make bioterrorism easy

In the summer of 1990, three trucks sprayed a yellow liquid at different sites in and around Tokyo, including two US Naval bases, Narita Airport, and the imperial palace. The attackers belonged to a group called Aum Shinrikyo, a Japanese cult that aimed to cause the collapse of civilization, making space for the rise of a new society ordered according to their religious ideals. Five years later, Aum would gain notoriety by carrying out sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway, killing 13 and injuring thousands.

Aum intended for the yellow liquid…