Ex-DeepMind synthetic biologist: AI biorisk pandemic claims are "straight out of the crackpipe"
jeremyphoward · x · 2026-09-14
Anselm Levskaya, who spent two decades in synthetic biology (DNA synthesizers, sequencers, cell engineering, viral design) and scaled transformers at Google DeepMind since 2018, pushes back hard on AI-biorisk pandemic narratives. He calls them claims from "hucksters who clearly never worked in a lab," with no appreciation of timescales, biophysical complexity, supply chains, or economics. Shared by Jeremy Howard.
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