Doesn't matter if AI can cure it, a suitable number of the right initial infected and a high enough R naught would kills 100s of millions before it could even be treated. Never mind what a disaster the logistics of manufacturing and distributing the cure at scale would be with enough people dead from the onset.
Perhaps the more likely scenario anyway is easy nukes, quite a few nations would be interested. Imagine if the knowledge of their construction became public. https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf
I agree with you though, the promise of AI is alluring, we could do great things with it. But the damage that bad actors could do is extremely serious and lacks a solution. Legal constraints will do nothing thanks to game theoretic reasons others have outlined.
Perhaps the more likely scenario anyway is easy nukes, quite a few nations would be interested. Imagine if the knowledge of their construction became public. https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf
I agree with you though, the promise of AI is alluring, we could do great things with it. But the damage that bad actors could do is extremely serious and lacks a solution. Legal constraints will do nothing thanks to game theoretic reasons others have outlined.