These are potentially tremendously helpful. But in the context of AI x-risk it’s still not enough to be concerning. A force field that gives accurate results 90% of the time would tremendously accelerate experimental efforts. But it wouldn’t be reliable enough to one-shot nanotech as part of a deceptive turn.
It’s coming along quite fast. Here’s the latest on ML-trained molecular dynamics force fields that (supposedly) approach ab initio quality:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41524-024-01205-w
These are potentially tremendously helpful. But in the context of AI x-risk it’s still not enough to be concerning. A force field that gives accurate results 90% of the time would tremendously accelerate experimental efforts. But it wouldn’t be reliable enough to one-shot nanotech as part of a deceptive turn.