It’s going to be fascinating to see what new laser resistant weeds and bugs come out of this.
https://ehs.weill.cornell.edu/pathogen-resistance-and-disinf...
[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.aar6115
The response letter at the bottom- “Is the effectiveness of alcohol-based handrubs against enterococci really compromised?” by INGEBORG SCHWEBKE has some interesting counterpoints and implies they used 23% isopropanol instead of 70%, which is not enough to sterilize.
About that... https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/1...
So that’s one solution, and it’s a big space for biology to play in. The bigger question will probably be whether or not there’s a route where weeds can make incremental progress toward better resistance from where they are right now.
For insects, as someone else pointed out, the easiest route is probably mimicry. But we might also see insects capable of recognizing the laser bots, noticing the chemical signals of burning bugs, etc.
and I said this becase I take "robots evolving" to mean tech workers being pressured to work by their bosses
Robots evolving would be someone signing off on the investment of doing a big compute run.
PS: I know the above was a joke, but it shows people embrace the power of AI so much they can see the weeds withstanding lasers before they can withstand AI classification.
The only reason why crops needs to have resistens now is because we treat the entire field with the stuff.
With lasers, you can treat the individual item.