From the article:

> All of the lab work is performed by human scientists.

That doesn't mean the humans aren't meat puppets.

I think the odds of a human accidentally creating a novel virus or bioweapon at the behest of a rouge AI are pretty small to be honest. That's a lot of manual labor to go "oops I didn't realize what this was!"

In the short term you're probably right. But after a couple of years, complacency will take over and more and more decision making will get ofloaded. I don't think it's out of the question before 2030.

I just realized how great it is that this term became great again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_Puppets

Are we anything else? Our complete behavior is shaped by our upbringing, media exposure, education. "Do we even have free will?"

No, but it also doesn’t make any difference, I think.

Not that I agree with the comment you're replying to - but I find this response funny, when just today there was a link on the front page about the US military bombing a school because of AI output

That you clearly only read the headline of

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