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Dangerous biological research - is it worth it? (Kevin Esvelt)

Rationally Speaking Podcast

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Pandemic Enhancement Research

The debate over pendemic enhancement research has focused almost entirely on this question of, is it worth the accident risk to beable to identify pendemic viruses? Does that actually help us prevent them from spilling over into humans in the first place. And what has been almost entirely ignored is the security risk, indeed, the proliferation risk, that is inherent in identifying a virus as a credible, pandemic capable pathage. To day, i estimate that at least five thousand people could create sars to using the virous assembly prodigals,. which have been published by many different laboratories now.

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