Five Observations on Biosecurity for 2024

This time last year, coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, we <a href="https://matthewfoxmcknight.medium.com/eight-observations-on-biosecurity-for-2023-3daa0ef31ce" rel="noopener">made predictions</a> about the future of biosecurity to highlight the change in our collective approach. At that moment it still felt a bit philosophical. Holy cow, did it get practical fast! This past year has been a powerful reminder that we’re on the exponential tail of a technology change curve (see <a href="https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Tim Urban’s 2015 essay on AI</a>). That means that even practitioners like us at Ginkgo, who live this day-to-day, are going to be surprised at the rate of change in technologies and markets year-to-year. I’m fundamentally convinced that we are in a race to build defenses against a new category of risk that will emerge from the nexus of biology, AI, and geopolitical instability. The choice to act — or not — in this moment will change our collective history. Our team (and many others we interact with) are choosing to act, building real solutions and running around the world to deploy them. We are putting our life energy into this because we want a better future for our families and communities — it feels like a better bet than putting our heads in the sand, building a bunker, or trying to figure out how to live on Mars. <a href="https://matthewfoxmcknight.medium.com/five-observations-on-biosecurity-for-2024-df9421161e95">Visit Now</a>