Genomic Prediction’s Stephen Hsu: “Making superhumans will be possible”

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Genomic Prediction’s Stephen Hsu: “Making superhumans will be possible”
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
• Feed URL: http://rss.acast.com/dannyinthevalley
• Duration: 01:03:10
• Published: 2022-03-11 12:25

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Stephen Hsu, co-founder of Genomic Prediction, to talk about the plummeting price of genomic sequencing (5:00), predicting height and cancer (9:10), mining biobanks (14:25), scoring embryos (19:00), why investors are staying anonymous (28:00), the need for a society-wide discussion (32:30), when he was accused of being a eugenicist (37:25), how powerful genetic prediction can be (43:15), genetic engineering (49:45), and why Denmark is the future (59:30).

See Stephen Hsu's podcast here: https://www.manifold1.com/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.