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Anshul Kundaje#1650
Anshul Kundaje#1650
Michael Baym@baym
Pretending like someone with an AI model and some gene synthesis is anything close in threat scale to the horrible diseases that we have spent centuries beating back serves more to market AI tools than provide a sober realistic assessment of threats
Michael Baym@baym
Preventing bad actors from creating synthetic versions of dead plagues is a good thing, but doing it while also disarming our ability to control real biothreats like screwworm and natural pandemic respiratory viruses is pretty much the definition of biosecurity theater
1:18 PM · Jun 4, 2026 · 1.9K Views
