alt Hacker NewsThere’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
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wat10000 • today at 4:43 PM
“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.
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moralestapia • today at 5:05 PM
>the risks of another synthetically induced pandemic of massive impact
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.