Pan Corona Virus Vaccines

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"It is definitely not in china's interest that this knowledge be discovered. This is not targeted weapons," he says. "Even though governments do stupid things all the time, they're far less likely to do something stupid if it has been strenuously and persuasively argued to them,. Ok, here's another. Some of the arguments in favor of deep vision are pretty strong."

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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