For four days in February 2019, some 30 synthetic biologists and ethicists hunkered down at a conference center in Northern Virginia to brainstorm high-risk, cutting-edge, irresistibly exciting ideas that the National Science Foundation should fund. By the end of the meeting, they’d landed on a compelling contender: making “mirror” bacteria. Should they come to be,…
A tech billionaire-backed super PAC is spending $125 million to undercut candidates pushing for AI regulation. New York’s Alex Bores, a former tech executive himself, is one of them.