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Comment author: cousin_it 21 August 2014 02:55:03PM *  7 points [-]

Greg Egan's story The Moral Virologist is a bit similar :-)

In general, yeah, narrow AIs specializing in stuff like biotech, nanotech or weapons research can be really dangerous.