06/24/2026
This week on the Futurists podcast, a lively discussion with a remarkable person. Adrian Woolfson is the co-founder and CEO of Genyro and he is the author of the best book we've read this year, On The Future of Species. (yes that is a self-aware reference to Darwin).
If you are open to an alternative to the hysterical wave of resistance towards artificial intelligence in the USA, you may find this interview inspiring and exciting. What the AI-haters miss (or ignore) is the immense benefit that AI will unlock. They see loss and threats but they seem to be unable to perceive or imagine the positive upside of machine intelligence. This interview is a useful correction.
Adrian sets forth his vision of Artificial Biological Intelligence, a brilliant innovation that spans genomics, gene editing (CRISPR) and synthetic biology.
He and his partners are building ABI now. That's what this interview is about.
Why it matters to you: longer health span, better health care, better crop yields, new materials, new kinds of energy, all of them stemming from the immense generative capacity of biology, all directed by human intention instead of random change and natural selection.
But it gets even better because ABI will open up the aperture of jobs and productivity to entirely new businesses, business categories and careers that current don't exist.
Adrian describes that inspiring vision of the future, and the amazing idea of designing and building entirely new organisms and animals.
https://www.thefuturists.com/episodes/biological-intelligence
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Biological Intelligence
Adrian Woolfson, the CEO and co-founder of the biotech company Genyro, joins the Futurists to chat about the audacious vision that animates his book On The Future of Species. Woolfson conceives of a Artificial Biological Intelligence that will unify diverse fields of genomic research into a new syst...
