Just when you thought you had enough to worry about, scientists came up with a new world-ending anxiety for us all. A dire warning about something nobody outside the relevant fields knew anything about. A risk easily confused with the TV series “Black Mirror,” or the virtual reality world “Second Life.”
Last month, a report in Science authored by 38 scientists representing various fields, and accompanied by a 288-page technical report again put together by multiple authors, called for the “the global research community, policy-makers, research funders, industry, civil society, and the public” to hold broad discussions on the dangers that could be posed by bioengineering hypothetical organisms, called “mirror life.”
