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#193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks
Lex Fridman Podcast
Pandemic Risks
The danger of malevolent rogue actors doing us in with sin bio could plummet. The easier risk to manage is that of, hey guys, let's not develop pathogens that if they escape from a lab could annihilate us. We'd have to collectively agree that there's no line of research that justifies that. And by the way, almost all of the measures that are taken in biosafety level labs are designed to prevent accidental leaks.
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