I’d say it’s hard to do at least as much because the claim ‘we are doing these arbitrary searches only in order to stop bioweapons’ is untrustworthy by default, and even if it starts out true, once the precedent is there it can be used (and is tempting to use) for other things. Possibly an AI could be developed and used in a transparent enough way to mitigate this.
Yes, work is being done by some to explore the idea of decentralized peer-to-peer consensual inspections. For things like biolabs that want to reassure each other that none of their student volunteers is up to bad stuff.
I’d say it’s hard to do at least as much because the claim ‘we are doing these arbitrary searches only in order to stop bioweapons’ is untrustworthy by default, and even if it starts out true, once the precedent is there it can be used (and is tempting to use) for other things. Possibly an AI could be developed and used in a transparent enough way to mitigate this.
Yes, work is being done by some to explore the idea of decentralized peer-to-peer consensual inspections. For things like biolabs that want to reassure each other that none of their student volunteers is up to bad stuff.
Consensual inspections don’t help much if the dangerous thing is actually cheap and easy to create.