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The next AI safety fight may actually be about DNA Original

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By Shayna Korol
| Future Perfect Verified
AI company CEOs Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) disagree on a lot, like how fast the technology should develop, the best way to regulate it, and how to prepare society for smarter-than-human AI, among other things. That makes it all the more remarkable that they — along with 85 other experts in tech, biology, and national security policy — recently signed on to an open letter calling for more robust regulations around gene synthesis.
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We don’t know how the Ebola outbreak started. That’s a problem.

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By Shayna Korol
| Yahoo Verified
In just 10 days over the summer of 1854, 500 people died of cholera in the Soho neighborhood of London. The city's population had more than doubled to 2.3 million people in the first half of the 1800s, and its sewage system could not keep up. But the streams of human waste flowing into the street and seeping into the water supply were considered unconnected to the cholera crisis. The prevailing theory of the day was that bad air — miasma — caused illness.
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How to make the most important choice of your life Original

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By Shayna Korol
| Future Perfect Verified
The average person works 80,000 hours over the course of their career. Ideally, that time should be fulfilling, well-paid, and spent doing things that make the world a better place. Of course that’s much, much easier said than done. In an increasingly fragile job market made still more fraught by AI, there’s no longer such a thing as a safe bet. According to Benjamin Todd, most people lack a systematic approach to thinking about their career choice.
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