Meanwhile, experiments to create Synthetic Life, including novel basis for life and possibly new viruses as a lab exercise (that may leak like the GoF virus did in Wuhan) proceed with no oversight or calls for pausing. We can unplug the AI and forbid AI weaponry (except by the state) but we can’t unplug synthetic viruses and new potentially dangerous or superior forms of life once it’s out there. Something very phony about the calculus.