What progress have you made since your last update?

Here's what we've been up to since March, until now (September 15):

* Several events, including a mini-conference in April with 6 speakers on genomics and reproduction.

* Our main event: Reproductive Frontiers Summit 2025. In June, over 100 attendees--scientists, entrepreneurs, parents, and enthusiasts--gathered, learned, and planned.

* We started publishing talks from our summit, with more coming: https://www.youtube.com/@BerkeleyGenomicsProject

* Several articles (https://berkeleygenomics.org/Explore), including a statement of a vision for a future with reprogenetics (https://berkeleygenomics.org/articles/Genomic_emancipation.html) and a high-level visual roadmap for reprogenetics (https://berkeleygenomics.org/articles/Visual_roadmap_to_strong_human_germline_engineering.html)

* Some behind-the-scenes support for the reprogenetics field.

* Research on chromosome selection.

* BGP in the news: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/silicon-valley-high-iq-children-764234f8

What are your next steps?

Upcoming:

* Talks and other videos

* White paper(s) on chromosome selection (https://berkeleygenomics.org/articles/Methods_for_strong_human_germline_engineering.html#method-chromosome-selection)

* Articles

Follow for updates:

https://x.com/BerkeleyGenomic

https://www.youtube.com/@BerkeleyGenomicsProject

https://bsky.app/profile/berkeleygenomics.bsky.social

Thanks @username and whoever directed the donation! (For a second I thought you were trying to pressure me into buying the book haha (which I did months ago).)

@DusanDNesic Thank you! We can't guarantee success but we can guarantee that we will work hard :)

@Rafe Thank you!

Responded to some points here: https://x.com/BerkeleyGenomic/status/1909101431103402245

@matiroy Thanks Mati!

@rahulxyz Thanks! Much appreciated. We'll make it happen. Maybe.

@Kaarel Thanks for your offer!

I'm unsure whether I agree with this strategically or not.

One consideration is that it may be more feasible to go really fast with [AGI alignment good enough to end acute risk] once you're smart enough, than to go really fast with convincing the world to effectively stop AGI creation research. The former is a technical problem you could, at least in principle, solve in a basement with 10 geniuses; the latter is a big messy problem involving myriads of people. I have substantial probability on "no successful AGI slowdown, but AGI is hard to make". In those worlds, where algorithmic progress continually burns the fuse on the intelligence explosion, a solution remains urgent, i.e. prevents more doom the sooner it comes.

But maybe good-enough AGI alignment is really extra super hard, which is plausible. Maybe effective world-coordination isn't as hard.

But I do mostly agree with this in terms of long-term vision.