Who Decides?

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The people who make the final call on three fields of consequential science: Gain-of-function, AI, and geoengineering.

12.05.2025

Editor: Brooke Borel
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Taken as a whole, they are a deeply unrepresentative group — one disproportionately white, male, and drawn from the professional class.

One official described the secrecy around the special HHS review panel for gain-of-function research as “totally crazy.”

For now, though, companies’ AI research is mostly bound only by a patchwork of voluntary guidelines and principles.

Globally, experts say, it remains unclear how existing international treaties or agencies could limit solar geoengineering.

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