That's according to a new report out of Cambridge University's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk reviewed by The Telegraph. In it, the Cambridge researchers argue that world governments have failed to prepare for futuristic weapons based on advanced technology like artificial intelligence and genetic manipulation — or even a killer pathogen designed to kill only people of a particular race.
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The report specifically called for the creation of independent groups to assess the risks of various future technologies and sort out whatever protocols are already in place to protect people from them, per The Telegraph.
"The technology is becoming increasingly sophisticated at ever cheaper prices, democratising the ability to harm more quickly and lethally," write the authors of the report. "In a particularly bad case, a bio-weapon could be built to target a specific ethnic group based on its genomic profile."
Ultimately, the researchers conclude, we can't afford to wait for those weapons to become reality before doing something about them.
Comment: The US has been at the forefront of bio-weapon research, and stands accused of attempting to develop race specific bioweapons, it also has a history of targeting specific groups for medical experimentation. However genetic research shows that, throughout human history relentless migrations and mixing - even intra-species mixing - means that it's not possible to define race through genetics, therefore any attempts at targeting one particular group would likely threaten the population of the entire planet:
- Putin claims someone is harvesting Russian bio samples for obscure purposes - US Air Force admits to collecting genetic data for "research"
- US may be collecting Chinese genes for bioweapons: Military report
- How genetics is proving that race is not necessarily a social construct
- Biowarfare, Nazi scientists and the creation of Lyme Disease in the US
- Past medical testing on humans revealed
- Footage of LSD trialled on UK marines, and other human experiments courtesy of Porton Down
Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Interview with Dilyana Gaytandzhieva: Pentagon Biological Warfare And Arms Trafficking to Terrorists