unknown (quote attributed to Thomas Pynchon)
"If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out for will come--you heard it here first--when the curves of research and development in artificial intelligence, molecular biology and robotics all converge."
--Thomas Pynchon, 28 Oct 1984.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A widely-circulated Thomas Pynchon quote (from a 1984 NYT essay, "Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?") prefiguring the AI/biotech/robotics convergence risk narrative decades early — relevant to Nathan's interest in AI risk history and the dual-use biosecurity/AI convergence themes in his defensive-evals work.