Moderna co-founder Noubar Afeyan calls for urgent regulation of AI agents

The billionaire biotech investor wants safety checks on commercial AI agents before launch, citing the thalidomide disaster as a warning Noubar Afeyan, the billionaire co-founder and chairman of Moderna, wants AI agents regulated before they reach customers. His argument is that waiting until after something goes badly wrong is the wrong order of operations. Afeyan made the case at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New Delhi on October 13, 2026. His chosen cautionary tale was thalidomide, a drug from the 1950s and 60s that caused birth defects because it was not adequately tested for safety.

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