| ▲ | haxiomic an hour ago | |
There’s YouTubers who do this [0]. I’d argue estimate the risks of a synthetically induced pandemic of massive impact this century are very high | ||
| ▲ | timr 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
Not even close to the same thing. That's taking an existing viral transfection system and swapping in a single gene. Thermo Fisher sells a kit to do this [1]. It's something you might do a few thousand times on the way to actually generating a novel virus. > I’d argue estimate the risks of a synthetically induced pandemic of massive impact this century are very high I'd argue that it probably already happened, and had nothing to do with AI. [1] AAV transfection. | ||
| ▲ | wat10000 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
“There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” But the next one (or the first one, if that one wasn’t manmade) will probably be much worse. | ||
| ▲ | moralestapia 25 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | |
>the risks of another synthetically induced pandemic of massive impact | ||