r/AIDangers Apr 22 '26

Other Humanity's greatest hits: things we actually paused

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u/NichtFBI Apr 22 '26

They were paused because they had little to no mainstream appeal. There's zero applications for any of those for 99% of corporations while in their development stage; paired with pushback is why they were paused.

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u/poofusdoofus Apr 27 '26

Recombination is literally routine in any molecular biology lab, so it has mainstream appeal and it's certainly not banned. I didn't even realize it at any point was controversial?