John Sotos, Chief Medical Officer of Intel covered the dangers of this technology quite well at DEF CON 25. If you've not seen his talk, watch it now, it's in my top ten of the best talks I've been to in the eleven years I've been going to DEF CON:
Well, that gave my dystopian dreams new levels of dystopia that I didn't even know could exist.
Starting with the fact that Intel has a Chief Medical Officer.
Why is that surprising or disturbing? IBM has long ago moved towards becoming a service company and if they want a large slice of the Healthcare industry pie then they'll have someone focused specifically on that.
This is Intel, not IBM.
This was incredibly fascinating and made me recall why I loved studying genetics in school so much. Really good speaker/storyteller and absolutely hilarious (especially his answer to the one woman who kept trying to shit on gene therapy). Thanks for sharing.
I have just watched it and it's pretty scary. Especially the reference he made to a bio weapon worse than death called "hell". Watching this will not help me sleep well.