Kevin M. Esvelt

Yeah, it's a lot to keep up with.

Another one that really caught my attention is Kevin Esvelt.

famously accomplished biologist, inventor of the gene drive, among other things, put out a post responding to a lot of the AI won't be able to do these bio tasks.

And it's a long and I think very carefully reasoned post.

I promised I wouldn't act on any of the ideas that I was suggesting to them as the plot line for a sinister movie.

So in 2022, David's friend, Kevin Esvelt, an associate professor at MIT, called him up and invited him to dinner to talk about mirror life.

And Kevin said, "We thought it might simply be a laboratory curiosity.

Now," Kevin said, "I'm not so sure.

It's found widely on this planet.

Bacteria can grow just fine on glycerol alone.

But then our ecologist friend said, "All right, but the real, the real determinant of the fate of any living thing is not just can it grow, but will it die?"

Basically, outside of the lab, would a mirror cell have a predator? Something in our natural world of biology that could kill it? The more they looked, the more anxious David got.