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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

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iamronaldo · 1790188963 · focus · HN ↗
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1. jrflo · 1790189172 · focus · HN ↗
  From the article:
  > All of the lab work is performed by human scientists.
  1. eleventen · 1790189235 · focus · HN ↗
    That doesn't mean the humans aren't meat puppets.
    unglaublich · 1790189741 · focus · HN ↗
    Are we anything else? Our complete behavior is shaped by our upbringing, media exposure, education. "Do we even have free will?"
    MeditatingMarmo · 1790190170 · focus · HN ↗
    No, but it also doesn’t make any difference, I think.
    guy4261 · 1790189828 · focus · HN ↗
    I just realized how great it is that this term became great again. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_Puppets" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_Puppets
    jrflo · 1790190394 · focus · HN ↗
    I think the odds of a human accidentally creating a novel virus or bioweapon at the behest of a rouge AI are pretty small to be honest. That's a lot of manual labor to go "oops I didn't realize what this was!"
    eleventen · 1790197055 · focus · HN ↗
    In the short term you're probably right. But after a couple of years, complacency will take over and more and more decision making will get ofloaded. I don't think it's out of the question.
  2. looperhacks · 1790189414 · focus · HN ↗
    Not that I agree with the comment you're replying to - but I find this response funny, when just today there was a link on the front page about the US military bombing a school because of AI output
    phoghed · 1790189577 · focus · HN ↗
    That you clearly only read the headline of
    looperhacks · 1790232657 · focus · HN ↗
    And what brings you to this very wrong impression?
  3. [deleted] · 1790190147 · focus · HN ↗
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2. [deleted] · 1790189183 · focus · HN ↗
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3. bpodgursky · 1790189789 · focus · HN ↗
  Biosafety is a very real concern but "lab" is a big bucket, a molecular genetics lab can't synthesize new viruses out of thin air if it's not a virology lab. Sequencers sequence etc. The lab has the equipment it has.
4. datadrivenangel · 1790190159 · focus · HN ↗
  It's okay, fable will not help them with any dangerous biology work...

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