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Atom­i­cally pre­cise manufacturing

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Atomically precise manufacturing (APM) is a proposed technology for assembling a wide variety of macroscopic structures molecule-by-molecule with atomic precision.

Evaluation

80,000 Hours rates atomically precise manufacturing a “potential highest priority area”: an issue that, if more thoroughly examined, could rank as a top global challenge.[1]

Further reading

Beckstead, Nick (2014) A conversation with Chris Phoenix on August 20, 2014, Open Philanthropy, August 20.

Beckstead, Nick (2015) Risks from atomically precise manufacturing, Open Philanthropy, June.

Drexler, K. Eric (2013) The physical basis of high-throughput atomically precise manufacturing, Metamodern.

Hilton, Benjamin (2022) Risks from atomically precise manufacturing, 80,000 Hours, July 29.

Muehlhauser, Luke (2017) Some case studies in early field growth, Open Philanthropy, August.

Regis, Ed (1990) Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over the Edge, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley.

Rosales, Janna (2010) Drexler-Smalley debates, in David Guston (ed.) Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society, Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, pp. 170–171.

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