The year is 2033 and the future of our species is in the hands of a super-intelligent AI. To avert a crisis that is making our planet uninhabitable, the machine is asked to find a way to halt climate change.
It has an idea. Through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service, it recruits a biology undergraduate in India. It places an online order for some DNA, some reagents, some basic genetic tools. They are sent to her with instructions on how to combine them. It waits for the virus she has unwittingly engineered to destroy humanity.
Emissions cease, but at a cost: there is nobody left to enjoy this cleaner, greener world.
The scenario is extreme but so, say experts, are the dangers posed by the reckless
