Human to human transmission is not the same as causing a pendemic. The main difference is that now there are much better computational tools for matching virus to ho species, bi ruceptor similarity and the like. So when deep vision decides avirus is worth testing from the sequen data, they're going to have a much better shot at identifying at that virus being high risk then predict was oka.
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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