AI chief warns 'deadliest pandemics ever' on horizon with genetic engineering
The Daily Star
One of the biggest threats facing the planet is a super-pandemic, warns the co-founder of Google DeepMind AI technology.
Mustafa Suleyman is the billionaire co-founder of the computer giant's DeepMind but warns it's not robots that pose the most danger to mankind.
He claims the ability to cook up a deadly pandemic at home is likely to become commonplace before the end of this decade.
He claims the ability to cook up a deadly pandemic at home is likely to become commonplace before the end of this decade.
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Mustafa says that in the next five years or so, a "kid in Russia” could download the instruction set for a pandemic that’s “more lethal” than anything we have encountered so far.