The Dangers of Genomic Information

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i. think this is one of the most powerful, a ginal arguments that i've heard about the danger of this kind of genomic information being out there. And what that means is we could suddenly go through a terrifying series of hijack of the attention and the stress levels of the world with all kinds of people issuing those threats. The creation of this credibility empowers so many more people then quoo, just the 30 thousand people who could act on it to do awful things in the world. Yes, i'm actually as afraid of, not just non state actors, but even just individuals, mentally ill or otherwise.

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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