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.’
What did I just read.
(lol their response to being banned was to brag that they have muscles and a girlfriend and were going to go have sex with her, which is the most tween flounce I’ve seen in ages.)
the most arousing words in the English language: “can you believe what they’re saying about me online”