AI #4

There are already indications that even previous generations of LLMs can be modified to display chemical synthesis capabilities, and robust scaling laws have even been proposed that apply specifically to these capabilities. On the basis of these results, it seems likely that, in the near future, the application of scaled transformers to chemistry and materials science will see its own “ChatGPT moment” in which a critical threshold of scale leads to a field-defining breakthrough in AI-based materials science and chemistry. Such a breakthrough could introduce acute and catastrophic risks by enabling the development of new types of weapons.

Gladstone AI, Survey … pg. 28