George Church

There are very few practitioners is the thing that will stop it for a while.

Yeah.

Since materials should go faster though, because they don't require quite as much regulatory approval.

It's one of these things where when you get the right idea, it's not hard to recruit people.

For example, when Feng Zhang and my labs brought CRISPR, we just got 10,000 requests in the next two months for people that wanted to duplicate the system.

And so that's what I hope will happen with the non-standard amino acids and the using AI for protein design and making new materials.

Hopefully that will recruit tens of thousands of people overnight.

I'm much more excited about scientific AI than I am about language AI.

I think languages were in pretty good shape already.

And what worries me is that to get to the next level of language requires AGI or ASI, artificial super intelligence.

And that's very dangerous.

I don't think we have quite figured out how to

There's a lot of safety organizations and a lot of safety rules and so forth.

And I think what typically happens when there's an intense competition is those safety rules get undermined and pushed aside.

But even if they weren't, I just don't think we understand our own ethics well enough to educate people.

A completely foreign type of intelligence.

I mean, we barely know how to pass it on to the next generation of humans.

So I think we need time to sort that out.

And there's no rush.

This is a completely artificial emergency.