Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.   This is part 2 of a four part series with Genyro co-founder Dr. Adrian Woolfson, author of a new book arriving this month from MIT Press…titled On the Future of Speciies: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence.   His cofounder was the developer of Sidewinder at Caltech…a tool that allows new life forms to be built…with help from AI.

“What might these new capabilities mean to us?” “Well that’s a great question and the answer to that  is, a lot.  If we can understand the grammar of biology, it means that biology basically becomes a programmable material.  From information storage to energy generation or be able to make new bio-materials which could be used for almost anything.”

We’re talking about living things that can be dreamed up.  The issues and ethics? More in my next report.

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