Pandemics Sky Rockets if Deep Vision Succeeds

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In light of all that, i don't know how you could argue against the statement that if deep vision is spun up and succeeds, the exposure humanity faces to malevolently inflicted pandemics sky rockets. And that brings me to my last quote from devisions nopho, the us. Agency for international development. It seeks to assist a limited number of countries,. with a focus on africa, asia and latin america., to establish capacity to detect, characterize and disseminate information about previously unknown viruses which originated in wild life.

In this episode of the podcast, Rob Reid and Kevin Esvelt discuss USAID’s new “Deep VZN” program, which aims to discover new pandemic-grade viruses and publish their genomes to the world. Esvelt estimates that there are currently around 30,000 people who could then easily build them.

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