> Why? Why??? To find cures for diseases faster, find new ways to produce useful chemicals, find ways to make crops resilient against changing climate, etc >

> Why? Why??? To find cures for diseases faster, find new ways to produce useful chemicals, find ways to make crops resilient against changing climate, etc > Isn't this one area you'd want extreme human intervention? No? There are an essentially infinite number of potentially useful experiments that could be run that have no risk or downside. It's not like they're doing this in a BSL-4 lab mutating smallpox.