What is Gain-of-Function Research & Who is at High Risk?

Alliance for Human Research Protection ^ | May 19, 2020 | Alliance for Human Research Protection

[Grandpa Drudge]

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has headed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984, has played a major role in promoting and funding gain-of-function research, both in the US and China. Newsweek reported: “He argued that the research was worth the risk it entailed because it enables scientists to make preparations that could be useful if and when a pandemic occurred.”

Those claims are belied by the empirical evidence GoF experiments have neither prevented a pandemic, nor provided useful information about safe and effective pandemic countermeasures. Numerous prominent scientists argue that these experiments deviate from morally justifiable research, and the experimentally altered pathogens have put the entire human species at risk.

[WildHighlander57]

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[Axenolith]

Sentient intelligence designed by us would BE anthropomorphic.

Anything reaching the “processing” power of humans that is self aware is going to have the same foibles, otherwise it’s just going to be an extremely efficient Von Neumann machine.

Now, I guess if we’re going down the path here, there’s going to be 2 branches though. One where we are actually working towards something like a humanoid robot, or something that flawlessly passes a Turing test and the other being something we create just to do a job that ends up having enough processing power and neural network complexity that it just becomes “self aware” out of the blue.

I’m going to have to hit that Bear book, its one I’ve not come across...