I'm Scared About Biological Computing — 273 Points on HN as AI Meets Lab-Grown Neurons
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An essay on the unsettling implications of biological computing — using lab-grown neurons and biological substrates for AI computation — hit 273 points and 232 comments on HN. This comes months after The Biological Computing Co. raised $21M in February 2026 to build AI on living neurons, and OpenAI/Ginkgo demonstrated GPT-5 autonomously designing and running 36,000 biological experiments through robotic labs. The HN discussion reflects growing practitioner unease about the convergence of AI and synthetic biology.