Published on June 19, 2026 10:18 AM GMT If you're interested in working on existential risk, mirror life should be near the top of your list ... and almost no one is working on it yet. Mirror bacteria, built from molecules with reversed chirality, could in principle evade the immune defences of essentially every plant, animal, and human on Earth, with no natural predators or established treatments to keep them in check. Its catastrophic, potentially irreversible scale with near-total neglect is