{"id":94766,"date":"2019-08-14T12:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T19:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/future-bioweapons-could-kill-people-with-specific-dna"},"modified":"2019-08-14T12:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T19:02:27","slug":"future-bioweapons-could-kill-people-with-specific-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/future-bioweapons-could-kill-people-with-specific-dna","title":{"rendered":"Future Bioweapons Could Kill People With Specific DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/future-bioweapons-could-kill-people-with-specific-dna2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the future, we may have to deal with biological weapons that target specific groups of people, passing over everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to a new report out of Cambridge University\u2019s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/08\/12\/world-must-prepare-biological-weapons-target-ethnic-groups-based\/\">reviewed by <em>The Telegraph<\/em><\/a>. In it, the Cambridge researchers argue that world governments have failed to prepare for futuristic weapons based on advanced technology like artificial intelligence and genetic manipulation \u2014 or even a killer pathogen designed to kill only people of a particular race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the future, we may have to deal with biological weapons that target specific groups of people, passing over everyone else. That\u2019s according to a new report out of Cambridge University\u2019s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk reviewed by The Telegraph. In it, the Cambridge researchers argue that world governments have failed to prepare [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks","category-genetics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94766","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}