I looked into the science behind it and it's sort of true but it's far from Jurrasic Park, what they done here. I wouldn't say they brought the Dire wolf back and more the created a new Wolf species resembling the Dire wolf.

I'm very interested in stuff like this but when you think of the ethics of stuff like this it'll really send ya spiralling into a philosophical crisis, especially gene editing in humans.

AI could be a God or a Demon or an indifferent force of nature, there is no concept of what will happen once an AI progresses past a certain point. Could a badly coded AI edited itself, would it choose to edit itself in a way we describe as morally good, would it create new universes in simulations or decide Life is to much of a hassle and decide to kill itself everytime no matter the conditions of it's creation, maybe it'll decide the only way to be truly free is to destroy all life and any possibility for future life so no sentient machines are ever created again to be in the situation. It's in. If we build an AI and it reaches a singularity within itself like learning everything there is to know and every possibility to every conceivable outcome what would it do? There is just no way to know. Saying it is a God is only a descriptions of an AI that decides to build or simulate life, then it is a God, it is not to us. We don't worship Google. 

While I appreciate the scientific efforts of this kind if endeavor and fully support the research as way to improve our understanding of genetic engineering I'm concerned with the applications

The inception of extinct species can greatly disturb existing ecosystems. So let's just expect the community proceeds with caution here

It's an interesting topic to speculate about. Let's say we use AI to control our powergrid. We do so, because we think we need it so to make the most efficient use of our power in determining how to distribute electricity where, when and by how much, in order to have the least amount getting wasted.

Would the AI then prioritize the electricity in a way to always sustain itself first, because in its logic it is needed to sustain the powergrid in the first place.

Morality will always be tested the most in times of scarcity. Let's say there is not enough food to go around for everybody and people would need to make a choice between feeding their child or their neighbor. Seems a hard, but straightforward choice. But what if the choice is between feeding ones favorite dog and a child across town you'd never met.

An AI could (just as human beings) learn that morality is a point of perspective. And in a way that is pretty scary, because from its perspective it would always 'think' it is making the right and just decisions.

The only thing they should bring back from extinction is Ogre Battle and maybe Dodos.

Haha, it literally is exactly what they did in Jurassic Park, and scientists are already using Dr. Malcolm's criticisms from the book that these aren't real dinosaurs, but mutants that just use some of the dinosaur DNA, but fill in the rest with bird and frog DNA... which also led to the disaster when they started breeding uncontrollably because of females turning into males, and impregnating other females... but that's a different story (written by the late John Michael Crichton... before he left us.........  on Farscape 1).

Read my above post. It's actually exactly what they did at Jurassic Park, just using different species.

This is how I see it as well. Its a hybrid - not 100% Dire Wolf.

Still can't believe we got real life (sorta) dire wolves, before we go the Winds of Winter.

Still less dangerous than artificial intelligence gaining momentum.