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Rob Reid · 62 episodes with transcripts

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  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
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"DEEP VZN" Revisited | Kevin Esvelt

March 11, 2026

Rob Reid (0:04)

Welcome to The After On Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Reid, bringing you conversations with thinkers, founders and scientists. They're in-depth and unhurried and are structured to bring you up to a top percentile understanding of something important. So whether you're into startups or ideas, a techie or a lit major…

This is a reposting of an episode I first ran way back in 2022 It's an interview with MIT's Kevin Esvelt about an insanely misguided virology research program called Deep Vzn. USAID spun up Deep Vzn with $125 million budget, and it had insane destructive potential. Had it delivered on its objectives, I find it…

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