Nation­al GMO coex­is­tence rules still apply to all genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied (GM) plants, includ­ing those dereg­u­lat­ed under new EU laws, a new legal opin­ion shows. This is because the EU has nev­er exhaus­tive­ly reg­u­lat­ed these areas, also not in its lat­est Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2006/1388 on plants derived from “new genom­ic tech­niques” (NGT). The Ger­man fed­er­al min­istry of agri­cul­ture dis­putes this find­ing,…

Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence is no longer just trans­form­ing apps, office work, or search engines. It is increas­ing­ly begin­ning to reshape agri­cul­ture, food sys­tems, biol­o­gy, labour, and even liv­ing organ­isms them­selves. Yet these devel­op­ments are rarely dis­cussed togeth­er. This event series, host­ed by Save Our Seeds togeth­er with peo­ple from the AI, sci­ence, envi­ron­men­tal and civ­il soci­ety com­mu­ni­ties, cre­ates space for exact­ly these con­ver­sa­tions.

Fol­low­ing today’s vote in the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment, there will no longer be any spe­cif­ic safe­ty assess­ments, labelling require­ments for food and feed, or trace­abil­i­ty in the envi­ron­ment for most genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied crops. This fail­ure of demo­c­ra­t­ic dis­course on tech­nol­o­gy under­mines the cred­i­bil­i­ty of organ­ised sci­ence and the already lim­it­ed trust in the integri­ty of pol­i­tics.