Matthew Cobb is professor emeritus at the University of Manchester, UK, and author of The Genetic Age (Profile Books, 2022). On 24 February 1975, some 150 people met at the Asilomar Conference Grounds ...
A half-century ago, scientists and lawyers agreed to strict self-regulation in DNA research to avoid catastrophe. Can A.I. follow the same model?
The AI2Health cluster of the Ken Kennedy Institute and the Synthetic Biology Institute at Rice University hosted a debriefing and collaborative discussion session on the Spirit of Asilomar summit June ...
The 50th anniversary of a landmark biosafety conference is an opportunity to ensure its spirit lives on in today’s scientists. Delegates proposed risk-based principles to determine, for example, which ...
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AI’s Asilomar or Hiroshima? The world is running out of time to decide whether to slow the AI race before technology outruns human control
Concerns over AI safety echo challenges faced during earlier technological developments, including the Manhattan Project and ...
Genetic technologies have the potential to help solve the ever-growing challenges of food insecurity and global health. But for this potential to be met, regulations that hinder scientific innovation ...
It's considered a scientific landmark: A 1975 meeting at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California, shaped a new safety regime for recombinant DNA, ensuring that researchers would ...
The year was 1975, before cell phones and email became ubiquitous, and Alex Capron remembers watching scientists lining up at a payphone during breaks at a conference. The payphone was in the main ...
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