It is a good thing or a bad thing?

The continuing acceleration of scientific and technological progress; and the fact that certain particularly dangerous activities, such as the production of new biological entities, require little investment and so are feasible projects for terrorist groups and even individuals, rather than only for nations, which are more easily deterred. Science and technology have conferred more benefits on humanity than costs, and that is indeed true; but the balance may need to be re-struck now that human extinction is becoming a feasible scientific project.