Adrian Woolfson
Biologist and author of On the Future of Species, advocating for programmable biology and discussing synthetic biology, genome writing, and 'artificial biological intelligence'.
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Jan 26, 2026 • 42min
Biology, technology and the future
Joanna Kavenna, novelist (Seven), brings literary and philosophical imagination. Adrian Woolfson, biologist and author, outlines programmable biology and genome writing. Gaurav Suri, cognitive scientist, explains neural networks and emergence. They discuss how AI reveals biological grammar, the idea of designing genomes from scratch, parallels between brains and genomes, and what emergent intelligence might mean for reality.
