The Threat of Self-Replication Nanotechnology By Brian Simpson

I have received the emails from various sources about the dangers of nanotechnology, the science and technology of the very small. One line of thought has it that there were nanobots, small robot-like things in the Covid mRNA vaxxes, which struck me as highly unlikely, as many independent researchers would have noticed this. The reports of this come from a small community of researchers in the vax critique community. They could prove to be right, and in the future, we may indeed see this. As shown in the extract below, there has been rapid technological advances with small robots and artificial life, with something resembling self-replication now occurring. The research is mainly funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which means that the idea is to come up with a war weapon, against their enemies, foreign and domestic. For the US that means, the Trump voters.

The problem with nanotechnology is that once self-replication can be conducted, there could be a runaway self-replication, where available matter is converted to making robots, an extinction scenario know in the literature as the "grey goo" problem. Is this likely? It is much like the hypothesis of runaway AI super-intelligence. Indeed, if the AI super-intelligence does happen, expect the AI to invent weapons of mass destruction, such as "grey goo" weapons. This is discussed by Dr Louis a Del Monte, in his book, Nanoweapons - A Growing Threat to Humanity.

Add nanotechnology to the list of existential threats to watch out for.

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"Many people have difficulty accepting the concept of self-replicating nanotechnology, nano robotics and artificial life. However, this field of science is rapidly evolving and has been featured in recent years even in mainstream media. Self-replication or reproduction has been achieved - which makes these synthetic robotic organisms created and controlled by Artificial Intelligence a life form. Note everything that I have been reporting is confirmed here in this CNN article. The robots WORK TOGETHER INTELLIGENTLY AND SELF HEAL.

What could go wrong when robots decide by themselves to self-replicate? Well uncontrolled self-replication of nanotechnology is considered one of the ways that we could have an extinction level event on earth according to Dr Louis A Del Monte, Author of the book "Nanoweapons - A Growing Threat To Humanity".

Please note that the research was partially funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a federal agency that oversees the development of technology for military use. So, is there any risk for dual purpose application when the military studies self-replicating robots which can build endless clones of themselves? What useful work can they be programmed to do - how about destroy the host organism over time or on command, would that be possible?

The original study was published here:

Kinematic self-replication in reconfigurable organisms

Almost all organisms replicate by growing and then shedding offspring. Some molecules also replicate, but by moving rather than growing: They find and combine building blocks into self-copies. Here we show that clusters of cells, if freed from a developing organism, can similarly find and combine loose cells into clusters that look and move like they do, and that this ability does not have to be specifically evolved or introduced by genetic manipulation. Finally, we show that artificial intelligence can design clusters that replicate better, and perform useful work as they do so. This suggests that future technologies may, with little outside guidance, become more useful as they spread…

Their discussion suggests that Artificial Intelligence remains in control of the robots and is able to postpone loss of replication. In days it can develop new qualities of artificial life.

We find that synthetic multicellular assemblies can also replicate kinematically by moving and compressing dissociated cells in their environment into functional self-copies. This form of perpetuation, previously unseen in any organism, arises spontaneously over days rather than evolving over millennia. We also show how artificial intelligence methods can design assemblies that postpone loss of replicative ability and perform useful work as a side effect of replication. This suggests other unique and useful phenotypes can be rapidly reached from wild-type organisms without selection or genetic engineering, thereby broadening our understanding of the conditions under which replication arises, phenotypic plasticity, and how useful replicative machines may be realized.

World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say

Formed from the stem cells of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) from which it takes its name, xenobots are less than a millimeter (0.04 inches) wide. The tiny blobs were first unveiled in 2020 after experiments showed that they could move, work together in groups and self-heal.

Now the scientists that developed them at the University of Vermont, Tufts University and Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering said they have discovered an entirely new form of biological reproduction different from any animal or plant known to science.

"I was astounded by it," said Michael Levin, a professor of biology and director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University who was co-lead author of the new research.

"Frogs have a way of reproducing that they normally use but when you … liberate (the cells) from the rest of the embryo and you give them a chance to figure out how to be in a new environment, not only do they figure out a new way to move, but they also figure out apparently a new way to reproduce."

"Most people think of robots as made of metals and ceramics but it's not so much what a robot is made from but what it does, which is act on its own on behalf of people," said Josh Bongard, a computer science professor and robotics expert at the University of Vermont and lead author of the study.

"In that way it's a robot but it's also clearly an organism made from genetically unmodified frog cell."

Bongard said they found that the xenobots, which were initially sphere-shaped and made from around 3,000 cells, could replicate. But it happened rarely and only in specific circumstances. The xenobots used "kinetic replication" – a process that is known to occur at the molecular level but has never been observed before at the scale of whole cells or organisms, Bongard said.

What is the next phase of this? Human Anthrobots. Please look at this full article from December 2023 with its videos and images:

Medical Marvel: Human Cells Transformed Into Tiny Biological Robots

Researchers at Tufts University and Harvard University's Wyss Institute have created tiny biological robots that they call Anthrobots from human tracheal cells that can move across a surface and have been found to encourage the growth of neurons across a region of damage in a lab dish.

The multicellular robots, ranging in size from the width of a human hair to the point of a sharpened pencil, were made to self-assemble and shown to have a remarkable healing effect on other cells. The discovery is a starting point for the researchers' vision to use patient-derived biobots as new therapeutic tools for regeneration, healing, and treatment of disease.