If deep vision succeeds, the genums of potentially very significant pandemic viruses will be put on the open anernet for anybody to find. And given the base of scientists and individuals who are already able to conjure certain viruses from hole cloth in the lab, tens of thousands of people will be in a position to follow those recipes as soon as they're posted. It's worth comparing covet has killed many more people than any single nuclear detonation. There are nine commonly acknowledged nation states with access to nuclear devices. So as soon as virus is likely to cause pandemics are publicly identified with freely available genoms, the number of actors capable of inflicting a million plus deaths would rise
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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