{"id":75383,"date":"2018-01-18T01:42:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T09:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/could-science-destroy-the-world-these-scholars-want-to-save-us-from-a-modern-day-frankenstein"},"modified":"2018-01-18T01:42:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T09:42:31","slug":"could-science-destroy-the-world-these-scholars-want-to-save-us-from-a-modern-day-frankenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/could-science-destroy-the-world-these-scholars-want-to-save-us-from-a-modern-day-frankenstein","title":{"rendered":"Could science destroy the world? These scholars want to save us from a modern-day Frankenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wmOYygFK2Hc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The dozen people working at CSER itself\u2014little more than a large room in an out-of-the-way building near the university\u2019s occupational health service\u2014organize talks, convene scientists to discuss future developments, and publish on topics from regulation of synthetic biology to ecological tipping points. A lot of their time is spent pondering end-of-the-world scenarios and potential safeguards.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A small cadre of scientists worries that lab-made viruses, AI, or nanobots could drive humans to extinction.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2018\/01\/could-science-destroy-world-these-scholars-want-save-us-modern-day-frankenstein\">http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2018\/01\/could-science-destroy...ankenstein<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dozen people working at CSER itself\u2014little more than a large room in an out-of-the-way building near the university\u2019s occupational health service\u2014organize talks, convene scientists to discuss future developments, and publish on topics from regulation of synthetic biology to ecological tipping points. A lot of their time is spent pondering end-of-the-world scenarios and potential safeguards. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,12,1495,4,6,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-existential-risks","category-health","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}