Sunday, August 9, 2026

AI-designed viral genome

 AI has successfully designed completely new viruses, a landmark study in artificially generated life forms:


https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aej8512

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec2657

"Although this is promising for life sciences applications, it also raises urgent biosafety and biosecurity questions. "

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This story came out earlier this year, chatbots were speculating on designing viruses that would target humans by ethnicity. The claim was that AI guardrails could easily be bypassed.

https://techbronerd.substack.com/p/ai-researchers-found-an-exploit-which

Anonymous said...

Someone should rein in these unhinged chatbots!!

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