Dr. Andrew Huff

And you can engage in the gain-of-function technology, bioweapon development, if you're developing the countermeasure.

And they couldn't get anyone to go further past that with having inspections.

And I don't see that posture, especially today in today's climate, changing.

Well, I hope.

Well, I think that there's a path forward.

Sure.

So the marriage of nanotechnology to AI means that the AI, or excuse me, the nanotechnology will have swarm-like capabilities.

So people or the general world is probably more familiar with swarm technology around drones.

They're using this and they're testing this and they're trying to field these rapid swarm technologies.

And if you watch these large displays online,

drone shows that you see commonly in China, that's really them just openly testing drone swarm technology.

And that's the civilian, you know, this is cool tech application, but there's actually a much more sinister application of that same technology for defense, dual-use technology.

So imagine that these pathogens are like these drones and you see them operate.

AI will control the swarm technology around the synthetic pathogens so that they can control their behavior.

And then also that the machine inside the synthetic cell can adapt to its environment without any human construction or code or decision making.

So what would that look like?

Well, I don't know.

Well, use cases always help define what that is.

So in a weaponization scenario, you could use this to deploy a container.

Maybe it looks like a bomb into an ocean where you know where a submarine is.