Special Episode: Recipes for Future Plagues

In this episode of the podcast, Rob Reid and Kevin Esvelt discuss
USAID’s new “Deep VZN” program, which aims to discover new
pandemic-grade viruses and publish their genomes to the world.
Esvelt estimates that there are currently around 30,000 people
who could then easily build them.


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