All of today’s developments – cyber, bio, or nano – will create new risks of abuse. The American National Academy of Sciences has warned that, “Just a few individuals with specialized skills…could inexpensively and easily produce a panoply of lethal biological weapons.…The deciphering of the human genome sequence and the complete elucidation of numerous pathogen genomes…allow science to be misused to create new agents of mass destruction.”
如今所有的技术发展——网络、生物或纳米——都有被滥用的风险。美国国家科学院警告说：“只需几个具备专门技能的人……就能以极少的代价轻易地制造出各种致命的生物武器……人类基因组序列的破译和无数病原体基因组的完全解密……使科学能够被用于制造具有大规模杀伤作用的新药剂。”