Heightened intelligence allows humans to shape our own future and the future of other living beings. However, artificial intelligence threatens to take the reins as the most powerful species on Earth.

Humans are not only a threat to other humans, but to every living being. With five major extinction events occurring in the planet's history, will synthetic biology and bioweapons cause number six?

Humans have the power to completely transform our biosphere. Will such responsibility let us flourish for billions of years, or will it be the end of life as we know it?