Feeding biologically active compounds to large numbers of humans has a long track record of being dangerous in a reasonably large portion of cases.
The FDA was created once there was a realistic, significant risk.
Similarly, if you want to release pathogens or modified animals there’s already a history of adverse events and a reasonable chance of non-zero risk. Even without GM we’ve had killer bees from normal crossbreeding. There’s an established pattern of realistic, significant risk.
There are already lots of ~zero risk AI projects which change their own source code.
Any law which bans Tierra or Avida are, likewise, poorly thought out laws.
Feeding biologically active compounds to large numbers of humans has a long track record of being dangerous in a reasonably large portion of cases.
The FDA was created once there was a realistic, significant risk.
Similarly, if you want to release pathogens or modified animals there’s already a history of adverse events and a reasonable chance of non-zero risk. Even without GM we’ve had killer bees from normal crossbreeding. There’s an established pattern of realistic, significant risk.
There are already lots of ~zero risk AI projects which change their own source code. Any law which bans Tierra or Avida are, likewise, poorly thought out laws.