Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked earlier this year by his fellow tech billionaire Patrick Collison what he thought of the risks of synthetic biology. ‘I would like to not have another synthetic pathogen cause a global pandemic. I think we can all agree that wasn’t a great experience,’ he replied. ‘Wasn’t that bad compared to what it could have been, but I’m surprised there has not been more global coordination and I think we should have more of that.’

  • Nihilistra@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    But would the world Powers have said something if it was an escaped virus out of the Chinese Lab in Wuhan?

    I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the wet market is 20 mins from a lab working on bats and viruses.

    You have a global Pandemic, but also a big part of the population wants revenge because the Chinese can’t keep their lab viruses contained and killed grandma with covid, quite a spicy meatball there.