Good choice of words: mutate like a virus. What should also be included is nobody has a right to convert anybody from a carbon based entity to a silicon based entity without their consent or to produce a clone of them without their consent or to prepare them for interplanetary life without their consent and through deception or install AI in them without consent or manage them by AI without their consent. Sound crazy? Synthetic biology has been unregulated for a long time and, as he outlined, individuals should have freedom and not enslavement. This will require individuals with the proper training and moral character to evaluate the current state of affairs.