For example, advances in DIY biohacking tools might make it easy for anybody with basic training in biology to kill millions
God I'm so tired of this particular meme. Buying some PCR kit off e bay and injecting plasmids into your bloodstream is NOT "hacking" anything, it's just a waste of time, and technological advances don't change that. The notion that you can randomly "engineer" a virus to kill millions is just absurd and even if somehow the average Joe gets to mutate viruses in his backyard, this still assumes that the nobody's going to, like, make a fucking vaccine or something, and how is the virus supposed to kill millions anyway? Is it an xXx_uLtRa_EvOlVeD_xXx super zombie ebola virus that just magically kills people extremely fast WHILE managing to propagate? Goddamn I hate ""biohacking"" and everything related to it SO MUCH.
Regarding the main topic though, I don't get it. We've had the atomic bomb for nearly a 100 years, the most destructive weapon ever known to man. Several wars, famines, droughts. Black death killed like half of Europe's population, and Euroasian/African diseases putatively wiped out most Native Americans and here we are, over 7 billion breathing bags of blood and feces sprawling all over this incontinent wonder-world of shit, plastic and cigarette butts. I'd say we're a lot less vulnerable now than before, and ain't no dumb ass "biohacking" or AGI (which will never be invented because AGI is dumb. I have a bet with Wilshire and somebody else on this actually) going to stop us now. Nuclear apocalypse could though. Or Aliens.
Anyway I didn't really read the article, just got triggered by the "biohacking" mention, hope this post is at least a little bit constructive.