Deep Vision

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Everything they find, by definition, is going to be made publicly available long before they characterize it. So bottom line, if deep vision succeeds, everyone on earth will get the recipes for the dangerous viruses that we find. They will be put on line just as 19 18 flew virus genum was put on line. That's right. Because remember, the tent of this programme is to identify which natural viruses might spill over and cause pandemics if they spill over into humans. And the way they hope to do that is by creating a list of viruses, rank ordered by perceived threat level.

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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