"In 2017, Canadian researchers raised alarm when they used $100,000 worth of mail-order DNA to reconstitute the extinct horsepox virus. Critics said the same methodology could be used to construct smallpox, a closely related and deadly virus. Gene synthesis has only gotten cheaper since then."
Colin Schultz
Oh good they signed a letter 🙃
www.wired.com/story/openai...
www.wired.com
Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons.
