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Central Intelligence Agency–Office of Technology Threat Assessment

Transcript of interview with Professor Edwin H. Grossman, February 28, 2012

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Q: In your opinion then, this is a serious threat but not an urgent one?

Grossman: I don’t know your definition of urgent. Look, the gray goo scenario is not science fiction, not any longer. Nanotech is advancing by leaps and bounds. There is some very important research going on at MIT, and at UC Irvine, as well as in my own department at Texas.

Q: But anyone researching nanotech is aware of the danger.

Grossman: Fermi was aware of the danger of nuclear fission. Watson and Crick were aware of the danger of DNA. Alfred Nobel was aware of the danger of dynamite when he invented it. No doubt the first cave man to swing a club was aware–

Q: I take your point, Doctor, but you aren’t seriously comparing nanotechnology to nuclear weapons.

Grossman: Actually, yes, I am. You see, in either case, we are talking about enormous, catastrophic power in the hands of human beings.

Q: Only a madman–

Grossman: Only a madman? (Laughs.) Has there been a shortage of madmen in human history?