Fundamentally, OP is making the case that Biorisk is an extremely helpful (but not exact) analogy for AI risk, in the sense that we can gain understanding by looking the ways it’s analogous, and then get an even more nuanced understanding by analyzing the differences.
The point made seems to be more about it’s place in the discourse than about the value of the analogy itself? (E.g. “The Biorisk analogy is over-used” would be less misleading then)
Fundamentally, OP is making the case that Biorisk is an extremely helpful (but not exact) analogy for AI risk, in the sense that we can gain understanding by looking the ways it’s analogous, and then get an even more nuanced understanding by analyzing the differences.
The point made seems to be more about it’s place in the discourse than about the value of the analogy itself? (E.g. “The Biorisk analogy is over-used” would be less misleading then)