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If DNA is just a string of letters, could AI learn to read it … or even write it? Bioengineering researcher Eric Nguyen reveals how AI has upended the rules of biology, potentially creating a future where disease is cured with personalized medicine, extinct species are resurrected (Jurassic Park, anyone?) and microbes designed for Mars…
@stephenbrickwood1602
December 17, 2025 at 6:18 pm
Fortunately if democracy does not remove the crazy leader then age does.
@danielolalekan5816
December 17, 2025 at 6:34 pm
Creating new species of animals sounds crazy 😅
@AnnieB-v8j
December 17, 2025 at 7:35 pm
Almost like ‘playing God’!
@danielolalekan5816
December 17, 2025 at 7:38 pm
@AnnieB-v8jYeah! I guessed so too
@supernova2877
December 17, 2025 at 6:48 pm
Stunning. It actually functioned the guy said
@vammekopinion6044
December 17, 2025 at 6:50 pm
So wrong on so many levels is my opinion. We don’t need only the rich, evil or highly educated to survive. Longevity has already been set, don’t play God because humans have never gotten it right.
@KuroGR
December 17, 2025 at 7:04 pm
i can see where this is heading…we are going to create new “human” species..humans with elf or orc or vampire characteristics…that will ultimately fail,war,poverty,hate all that will come and all those poor “new species” will be treated like freaks…and so on and so forth…just like we have seen in countless movies,video games,etc.
@DanteKSA
December 17, 2025 at 8:41 pm
This is just shadowrun world😂
@KuroGR
December 17, 2025 at 9:25 pm
@DanteKSAhahaahaha i wanted to see if anyone realised my shadowrun innuendo😏
@christaporche
December 17, 2025 at 10:26 pm
Very frightening. Why does “Evo” sound so much like “EVIL”? Changing our DNA is such an out-dated idea. Most of us have outgrown this science-fiction idea that it would improve the world. We learned that there are better ways to improve the world and solve our suffering. Personalised medicine? Think again.
@MrStredders
December 17, 2025 at 9:21 pm
Yeah, we totally need this 🤦🏻♂️
@someperson7
December 17, 2025 at 10:12 pm
Well this has the potential to irreparably damage the world. Kind of psyched for a wooly mammoth though
@thechosenone6333
December 17, 2025 at 10:33 pm
Ok baby in future are gonna look crazy
@abeannis
December 17, 2025 at 10:51 pm
Can we just stop 😢
@boreddev9252
December 18, 2025 at 9:43 am
Why?
@navigate30a
December 18, 2025 at 12:17 am
I love how he references Jurassic Park as a point of leverage for the idea, completely glossing over the fact that Michael Crichton wrote that series as a cautionary tale against this very concept. Jesus, take the wheel. 🙃
@Reza_Ahmadi_Madeira
December 18, 2025 at 3:58 am
Told you, we are Gods 😅😮❤❤
@niraakara
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 am
How about we protect all the species we have left?
@arthureglin
December 18, 2025 at 7:10 am
Did not get the message of jurrasic park did you ?😂
@PVS3
December 18, 2025 at 8:07 am
No.
Next question.
@moldeen
December 18, 2025 at 8:08 am
Compare his utopian perspective to the more grounded why files version. One that’s based on facts and history. Crisper is dangerous. Extremely dangerous
@gheorghitacristea5750
December 18, 2025 at 8:15 am
Immagine this AI ending up creating a T-Rex that grows to maturity in minutes and self reproduce while doing so.
“Sorry, let me try again”😂
@user-qy4lp8wp5c
December 18, 2025 at 7:33 pm
You need energy and materials to change an organism, what you described would literally catch on fire or starve in seconds.
@gheorghitacristea5750
December 20, 2025 at 5:19 am
@user-qy4lp8wp5c I agree, the analogy with T Rex is not appropriate 😂
In any case, I believe we shouldn’t assume to know something is not true just because we haven’t seen it before. Furthermore, physics allows for all sorts of crazy stuff
@51vvince
December 18, 2025 at 9:04 am
I’LL BE BACK
@nasebuffett
December 18, 2025 at 11:20 am
cool
@wiszak9370
December 18, 2025 at 12:09 pm
New viruses, new bacteria and nasty things we never imagined, and then giving this power to a bully like Trump, Putin and Netanyahu.
@pshahdoshi
December 18, 2025 at 12:18 pm
My friend! You can create robots but you can’t create soul! Science will NEVER be able to do that, let nature be!
@Saunterisland
December 18, 2025 at 12:26 pm
Humans are more dangerous to themselves than expected
@johnsekhukhune1730
December 18, 2025 at 12:42 pm
I don’t think we should Tinker with the past by bringing back previous life forms
@freshmaze
December 18, 2025 at 3:51 pm
Yeah, definitely do not feel comfortable with changing my dna
@mum8les384
December 18, 2025 at 5:17 pm
We need restrictions, guardrails and strict supervision on Ai or it will kill us all
@isamekailmahmud9302
December 18, 2025 at 5:23 pm
I don’t think this thing should be like chatgpt, atleast not open to the public.
@stickman4087
December 18, 2025 at 5:29 pm
A classic case of just because you can doesn’t mean you should
@urgaynknowit
December 18, 2025 at 6:07 pm
Or personalized viruses…
@Jabersson
December 19, 2025 at 4:04 am
TRUE! NOBODY’S TALKING ABOUT THAT
@user-qy4lp8wp5c
December 18, 2025 at 7:34 pm
I literally though this was the onion
@rssemmens1
December 18, 2025 at 10:14 pm
He is definitely not an ecologist. Yeah, lets make a new species and see what happens. Not one that has evolve to be but just an instant species.
@firedawn
December 19, 2025 at 1:10 am
Food as medicine
@janhaanstra2245
December 19, 2025 at 2:49 am
Any innovation (fire, knives, vaccines, nuclead energy etc.) can be used for good or evil puposes. It is not about the innovation, it is about OUR integrity and morality. So it is up to us to have that discussion, not to ignore it or wishing it away.
@Jabersson
December 19, 2025 at 4:15 am
And before anyone hits us with the “you’re just upset cuz this is the future”, do you seriously think we’re gonna use this technology better than we have ANY other? What does personalizing DNA do to change society, except to further divide us and give us more things to fight over?
@ionageman
December 19, 2025 at 4:23 am
I have zero doubt a baby will be born with a computer interface in my lifetime
@ChrisCharltonWeb
December 19, 2025 at 6:26 am
“Welcome to Jurassic Park” 🦖
@StefanDanov
December 19, 2025 at 8:43 am
Why didn’t you look for a better name?
@torolavmelhus1092
December 19, 2025 at 3:37 pm
That last comment was ominous hahaha
Creating wholly mammoths is one thing but creating something “alien” is completely a different thing xD
@kool-aidman7454
December 20, 2025 at 10:08 am
That last question I think is where we go a bit too far. Speaking as an Atheist, I don’t think we should allow ourselves to play God and create life.
@olohialli9289
December 20, 2025 at 2:37 pm
Why do y’all use your new tech to find a cure for cancer