{"id":99389,"date":"2019-12-06T12:42:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T20:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/world-must-prepare-for-biological-weapons-that-target-ethnic-groups-based-on-genetics-says-cambridge-university"},"modified":"2019-12-06T12:42:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T20:42:38","slug":"world-must-prepare-for-biological-weapons-that-target-ethnic-groups-based-on-genetics-says-cambridge-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/world-must-prepare-for-biological-weapons-that-target-ethnic-groups-based-on-genetics-says-cambridge-university","title":{"rendered":"World must prepare for biological weapons that target ethnic groups based on genetics, says Cambridge University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/world-must-prepare-for-biological-weapons-that-target-ethnic-groups-based-on-genetics-says-cambridge-university.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biological weapons could be built which target individuals in a specific ethnic group based on their DNA, a report by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cam.ac.uk\/\">University of Cambridge<\/a> has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Cambridge\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cser.ac.uk\/\"> Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER)<\/a> said the government was failing to prepare for \u2018human-driven catastrophic risks\u2019 that could lead to mass harm and societal collapse.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years advances in science such as genetic engineering, and artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous vehicles have opened the door to a host of new threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biological weapons could be built which target individuals in a specific ethnic group based on their DNA, a report by the University of Cambridge has warned. Researchers from Cambridge\u2019s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) said the government was failing to prepare for \u2018human-driven catastrophic risks\u2019 that could lead to mass harm and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,12,412,1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks","category-genetics","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99389","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}