Thanks Stavros will apply for them. Currently Asgard work in my lab is not directly funded.

I mean look at Musk. For a long time, he warned about the risk of AI. Until he realized he would loose (i.e. not earn) a lot of money so he jumped onto the wagon and now says "Only I can build a good/safe general AI, so I have to beat all others to it". It's such a stupid argument.

Well i see where the fire analogy comes from ;) For those who don't: www.amazon.com/New-Fire-War...

But I think as a society we are, once again, asking us the wrong question: we ask “how can we best use it” while we should ask “should we”?

But I agree. It’s a systemic and - mostly - moral issue that scientists cannot solve by themselves. The chance people will not use it is virtually zero despite the risks, snake oil salesmanship, and moral gray areas.

Sure but you essentially describe the same dilemma as about nuclear weapons after ww2. Well, the other side invests billions of dollars in WMDs, we must too. This time it’s AI and it’s more of an economy argument but without the AI firms delivering anything of substance. It’s a gigantic bubble.

The reason national lab push AI is because they are being told by people in the federal government, many of which have received millions of dollars donations by AI firms, and who decided to hand out hundreds of millions to push AI to generate demand for AI.

My mind is not made up yet, but I lean towards yes, it is research misconduct.

Thanks for providing a virtual option!

Btw my lab’s Asgard culture is called Skadiarchaeum cthulhuensis.

So, in contrast to all your previous paintings, this is fictional though. Odinarchaeum has never been imaged or cultured.

Our research was funded by the NASA Exobiology (to Tim McDermott) and DOE BER (me) programs.

attenuated two influenza pandemics in the 20th century, and his cumulative contributions are credited with saving 10s of millions of lives worldwide. See hillemanfilm.com/dr-hilleman for more information.

We named this archaeon in honor of Maurice Hilleman (1919-2005), a microbiologist and vaccinologist who graduated from Montana State University. Over the course of his career, he developed over 40 vaccines, including 8 that are recommended for children in the USA. His vaccines

and in situ methane flux measurements revealed extremely high and variable methane flux. Our results show that the novel methanogen, Ca. M. hillemani, is active when challenged with environmentally relevant stressors and contributes to the methane flux emanating from the GSL.

In contrast, Ca. M. hillemani prioritizes trace metal uptake and immune functions in response to the presence of the co-enriched sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovermiculus. 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing of GSL shore soils demonstrated the presence of Ca. M. hillemani, along other methanogens,

when exposed to environmental stressors: low salt, high salt, and the presence of oxygen, a gas toxic to most methanogens. We demonstrate that Ca. M. hillemani does not increase expression of energy-conservation or osmo-tolerance proteins when challenged with salinity or oxygen.

In this study, we cultured a novel methanogen, for which we propose the name Candidatus Methanohalophilus hillemani, from the GSL at a time when its salinity reached a historical high. We obtained a complete, circular genome from this archaeon and study how it changes protein expression

The Great Salt Lake (GSL, Utah, USA) is an environment that has been heavily impacted by human activity and is an important local source of methane emissions. It has more than doubled its salt concentration since the last methanogenic archaeon was cultured from it in 1985.