AI + Synthetic Biology: The Most Transformative Technology in Human History | Ben Lamm (Colossal)
🎯 HEADLINE AI and synthetic biology are fusing to create a platform for designing living products, from reviving extinct species to engineering microbes that devour plastics—potentially the most transformative tech in history. 📝 SUMMARY Colossal, led by CEO Ben Lamm, is pioneering an end-to-end synthetic biology pipeline powered by AI to tackle the extinction crisis. By developing tools in computational biology, gene editing, cloning, and more, they’re targeting de-extinction of species like the woolly mammoth, Tasmanian tiger, dodo, and direwolf while building a versatile platform for broader applications. ...