Inside the ICE House
Inside the ICE House
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AI x Bio Series: Ginkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly on Engineering Life's Next Operating System
24 minutes Posted Aug 17, 2026 at 7:00 am.
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Ginkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly joins Inside the ICE House to explain how Ginkgo is building the infrastructure to make biology programmable at scale — automating the lab work that has long bottlenecked scientific progress and offering experimentation as a cloud-based service to pharma, agriculture, and academic researchers. Kelly also details how a landmark collaboration with OpenAI demonstrated that AI can now autonomously design and iterate on biological experiments, pointing toward a future where the $120 billion spent annually on manual research gets dramatically more productive.