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We're Building Minds We Don't Understand — And Calling It Progress

We're Building Minds We Don't Understand — And Calling It Progress

AI systems are inching toward something that looks uncomfortably like reasoning — and our ethical frameworks are nowhere close to ready. Researchers are raising alarms, corporate guardrails are showing cracks, and the assumption that we can simply regulate our way out of this is starting to look dangerously naive.

Everyone's Betting on AI. The Smartest Money Is Moving Into Living Machines.

Everyone's Betting on AI. The Smartest Money Is Moving Into Living Machines.

While Silicon Valley stays hypnotized by large language models, a quieter revolution is being engineered one organism at a time in wet labs across the country. Synthetic biology is on the verge of producing the decade's most consequential breakthroughs — and venture capital is only just starting to wake up to it.