As expected, these scientists are missing the most important point.
To you scientists: it’s an IQ test.
“To you scientists: it’s an IQ test.”
Most scientist’s have taken an IQ test and a good percentage of us are members of Mensa.
We haven’t as a species even begun to use DNA to it’s full potential. Precision fermentation is just the tip of the iceberg. GMO cyanobacteria that can turn solar photons into any organic chemical and a slew of synthetics too. Beating land plants by an order of magnitude on a square meter basis. GMO e.coli that eat electrons and pump out protein,sugars,lipids,starches aka food at millions of times the density per square meter of anything anywhere in nature. Want jet fuel you can program a bacteria to take water, CO2 from the air and excrete jet fuel when you feed it electrons or hydrogen protons or carbon monoxide gas <<< this is at the commercial scale in China btw.
Want to make milk real chemically identical milk to cows but in vats by the millions of gallons while using as feed acetic acid , or glucose made with electricity,water and CO2 yeah already being done. You could mass spectrometry the finished product it would have the identical organic chemicals as milk from mammary tissue because it IS mammary tissue in the vats the DNA parts that make all those organic chemicals, lipids ,proteins , et al. From a lab testing point of view it would not even test as not being mammalian milk. Unless it was modified say to remove lactose sugar and replace it with glucose that every human can digest vs only lactose tolerant gene holders.
You could use a gene editing virus to add the lactose gene to already living people thus making them lactose tolerant. This says nothing of IVF and editing eggs and sperm for all manner of things, height,hair or eye color, intelligence for sure. Remove down syndrome forever from the human genome, same for Parkinson’s or sickle cell just to think of a few.
I know I know just because we can, doesn’t mean we should some will say. In response to that someone will regardless, even if banned it will be done in secret so best be the world leaders at it or be left behind and subjugated. This applies for all AI and it’s offspring which are coming. AI will if not in secret already has exceeded human intelligence it’s when not if we best control it or our enemies will.