The Importance of Regulating New Technologies

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I largely agree that with new technologies are just really difficult to regulate and sort of erring on the side of not regular them too early seems good however I do think that there's a difference when there's a kind of black swan risk from a technology like for example people experimenting with making new viruses. That seems like it just threatens the whole world and like we just have to regulate that immediately. Well and what you would do is regulate the process of the environment or the controls around it and those kinds of things maybe that maybe it has to be regulated to an extreme but that is an example of where now we understand the risklike if this goes terribly wrong then it can leak out

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