‘Destroy the World Based on Sequence Data’: Slack Message From Proximal Origin Author Confirms the Pandemic Power of Digital Genetic Sequences

by Jon Fleetwood, Jon Fleetwood: DARPA-funded Kristian Andersen privately acknowledged the world-destroying power of sequence data alone, just weeks before co-authoring the paper that defined the COVID-19 pandemic. A public Slack message obtained by Congress in 2023 shows Kristian Andersen—a leading computational pathogen genomics researcher whose published work acknowledged support from DARPA’s ADEPT program—privately asking whether the world could be […]