MIT biologist: Is the Russian plague pandemic 2.0?

9 Oct 2026 · 31 min

Episode MIT biologist: Is the Russian plague pandemic 2.0?

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UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers talks to MIT evolutionary engineer Kevin Esvelt about a suspicious biological researcher's death in Irkutsk, Russia, using the incident to explore the escalating biosecurity risks posed by engineered pandemic weapons, vaccine-evading pathogens, and AI-accelerated gain-of-function research.

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