Designer Babies and AI Jobs Are No Longer Sci-Fi

Jamie Metzl is a former national security official, biotech futurist, and one of the earliest public voices to argue that Covid likely came from a lab accident. Today he talks about why that possibility became taboo; what gain-of-function research gets wrong; and how fear and politics distort scientific judgment. From there, we move into the future of gene editing, embryo selection, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and artificial intelligence (AI)—what’s actually coming, what people misunderstand, and why the hardest questions ahead of us aren’t likely technical, but moral. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Designer Babies and AI Jobs Are No Longer Sci-Fi is an episode from Conversations With Coleman by The Free Press.

This episode is 74:52 long.

This episode was published on Feb 2, 2026.

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