I’m not a science guy, and chances are, neither are you.

But when you start to notice that a series of controversial tech-related headlines are starting to sound an awful lot like a previous science-driven, pandemic-causing tech disaster, maybe it’s time for us lay-folk to weigh in and point out the obvious. 

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I am an avid user of artificial intelligence, but the latest revelation that these supercomputing cyborgs are being developed by ambitious programmers without any real sense of where the technology may land — or its potential impact on humanity — should trigger our Spidey senses.  

At least to me, this sounds eerily similar to the path our expert class led us down with gain-of-function research on viruses, which was all just finally brought to light in the halls of Congress. 

While Anthony Fauci chose omertà over openness at last week’s hearing, his love of dangerous science projects has long been clear. His enthusiasm for gain-of-function experimentation echoed the same pubescent energy teenagers display when they throw a firework down a manhole. They just want to see what would happen.

Though AI isn’t brewing up Influenza Coolattas in Chinese labs, its developers do seem to be pushing the limits of the technology without any clear restraint. 

Now that we are grappling with why the U.S. government allowed and funded gain-of-function research without........

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