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#193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks
Lex Fridman Podcast
Synthetic Biology - The Most Probably Route to Self Destroyment
If humans destroy ourselves in the next 100 years, what will be the most likely source? "I think I personally oscillate much more aggressively between those two where I wouldn't be able to find the average," he says. In the near term that he's comfortable predicting, let's say 30 years, he would say the most likely route to self destruction would be synthetic biology. 'Sin bio offers us simply stunning promise that we would be fools to deny'
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