Indeed, and it doesn't even have to be someone trying to do something malicious like create a virus that targets a certain ethnic group. It's completely possibl

Indeed, and it doesn't even have to be someone trying to do something malicious like create a virus that targets a certain ethnic group. It's completely possible that someone trying to create something as a novelty causes some mutation that results in massive damage. Say someone is trying to create a glowing plant (there are numerous companies and individuals attempting to make these that glow bright enough to be commercially viable) and they accidentally encourage some mutation that can spread in the wild that ultimately results in creating a dead end in the species with a bunch of plants that can only be cloned and you end up with a precarious situation cough like we have with Cavendish bananas cough. Or what if someone is trying to cure their own disease and uses some bacteria or virus to deliver the gene edit to themselves and it also happened to pick up a mutation that makes it highly contagious to certain individuals and causes some unintended issue. Or someone wants to help sequester carbon so they try and engineer some incredibly fast growing tree (I know of people actively looking into this) and go plant some in the wild and create the next terrible invasive species like kudzu. Or someone actually sits there trying to intentionally create some super-bacteria or super-virus because they are mentally unwell and hate the world and creates something that makes the Spanish Flu's death count look like amateur hour.