"AI moratorium in place while everyone spends the weekend teaching flies to do things"
chrisalbon · x · 2026-09-12
An amusing observation from Chris Albon: with an "AI moratorium in place," researchers spent the whole weekend teaching flies to do things. He quips that 2015 Chris could never have comprehended that sentence — a snapshot of how fast and absurd AI-adjacent bio-experimentation has become.
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