Understanding the governance challenges created by ‘generative biology’ –
integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with synthetic biology.
Organized by ETC Group, African Center for Biodiversity, TWN – Third World Network
Thursday, 12 September
14:00 Central European Summer time/ Central African time (UTC+2)
To confirm your local time, input your location here:https://t2m.io/AISynbioWebinar_LocalTime
Register to join here:
https://t2m.io/AISynbioWebinar_Reglink
You will be sent a unique link to join the webinar
Overview
The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has for 30 years governed new developments in biotechnology, in the frame of precaution and justice, and has also recently established a process of technology horizon scanning, assessment, and monitoring of new developments. Now, there is an industrial attempt to converge next-generation genetic engineering tools (synthetic biology) with generative AI (of the sort used by ChatGPT) in a new “generative biology” industry.
On the agenda…
· Why the CBD’s expert groups propose an urgent assessment of this newest AI-biotech convergence.
· How the use of generative AI in biology brings thorny new problems stemming from the opaque and error-prone ‘black box’ character of generative AI.
· How the world’s largest digital tech companies (including Google, Microsoft, Amazon and NVIDIA) are fuelling a ‘generative biology rush’, including a bold biopiracy grab of all the world’s digital sequence information on genomic resources.
· What can be done at COP 16 in Cali, Colombia?
The webinar will be held in English, French and Spanish
