Ramez Naam(@ramez):Using AI to create pandemics or wipe out humanity faces huge challenges in the physical world, in the lack of predictive models, and in the 100% need for experimentation. Listen to the experts here.

Ramez Naam

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Climate and clean energy investor. Author of 5 books. Energy & Environment co-chair @SingularityU. Trying to build a better world.

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Ramez Naam@ramez

2026.09.14 00:55

Using AI to create pandemics or wipe out humanity faces huge challenges in the physical world, in the lack of predictive models, and in the 100% need for experimentation. Listen to the experts here.

David Bellamy@DavidRBellamy

2026.09.13 17:24

I must be among an extremely small group of people (n=1?) that have both 1) trained a frontier LLM and 2) designed and synthesized custom viruses in a lab with my own two hands. And I think that the takes on AI killing us all by creating dangerous viruses is total bogus.