Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany.
Elife. 2017 Nov 14;6:e30247. doi: 10.7554/eLife.30247.
Advances in biological engineering are likely to have substantial impacts on global society. To explore these potential impacts we ran a horizon scanning exercise to capture a range of perspectives on the opportunities and risks presented by biological engineering. We first identified 70 potential issues, and then used an iterative process to prioritise 20 issues that we considered to be emerging, to have potential global impact, and to be relatively unknown outside the field of biological engineering. The issues identified may be of interest to researchers, businesses and policy makers in sectors such as health, energy, agriculture and the environment.
生物工程的进步可能会对全球社会产生重大影响。为了探索这些潜在影响，我们进行了一次前瞻性扫描，以捕捉生物工程带来的机会和风险的各种观点。我们首先确定了 70 个潜在问题，然后使用迭代过程确定了 20 个我们认为正在出现、具有潜在全球影响且在生物工程领域之外相对未知的问题。确定的问题可能会引起健康、能源、农业和环境等领域的研究人员、企业和政策制定者的兴趣。
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