Corey and Steve discuss news of gene edited babies in China, and the future of human genetic engineering.

▶️ Watch: CRISPR Babies — Episode #1

Resources

• Generation CRISPR?
• He did it: He Jiankui talk at HKU conference on gene editing
• Economist Radio podcast interview on Genomic Prediction
• Transcript
  
  

Announcing this for some friends at Mechanize - a startup that builds environments for training and evaluating frontier LLMs. Its customers include the top AI labs, and it has contributed to the breakthrough in coding capabilities of frontier models. 

Mechanize is hiring! 

https://mechanize.work/b/hsu 

Compensation is extremely competitive. For technical roles, $300-500k. They are also seeking smart generalists. 

For example: 

Research Engineer, Alignment: Build evals that test for misaligned model behaviors  $500K salary 

Puzzle Maker: Design interesting and original puzzles that LLMs can’t yet solve  $300K salary 

Mechanize understands that my readership is highly selected. There is a VERY GOOD CHANCE you will be interviewed if you apply via the link above.