The term is "dual-use technology". [1] There are many. And in general users of those technologies are precisely those most keenly aware of it. In particular,

The term is "dual-use technology". [1] There are many. And in general users of those technologies are precisely those most keenly aware of it. In particular, the gene driver really is only of interest in organisms with very rapid generational turnover. It 'rapidly' speeds the propagation of a mutation over sexual transmission proportional to the generation time. This works for mosquitos. It makes no sense to use a gene-driver on a human population. A virus itself is, well, virulent - they need no help from CRISPR to get there. Further, there are always exceptions/antidotes/alternatives in biology. In fact the recent discovery of some (useful) Cas9 inhibitors was predicated on the idea that there are organisms out there that have CRISPR systems in them that are themselves flanked by excision sites. By all rights they should not be able to have both the CRISPR system and have that system be marked for destruction - but they did - simultaneously. So they went searching, and they found the inhibitor in those organisms. And there are many more out there. [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-use_technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-use_technology [2] http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(16)31683-X http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(16)31683-X