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"They cautioned that gene editing technology is far cheaper and easier to access than nuclear or chemical weapons."

The potential dangers from gene editing shouldn't be put in the same light as artificial intelligence or nuclear technologies. Instead it deserves recognition for the nature of its actual danger, that being it's ease of use as mentioned, potential uses (of which I don't believe the tip of the iceberg has been reached), and as far as a risk of existential threat is concerned, it's communicability.

Gene-editing will not be a nuclear arms race nor will it be a speculative threat as AI currently stands. Gene-editing can be put into action by anyone, just as an AI of some sort might be, but has very real consequences, just as nuclear technology does.