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AI used to design brand new viruses — but experts fear a lot could go wrong: ‘Urgent biosafety questions’

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Fews App Post Time 18h ago

Researchers used artificial intelligence to create 16 new viruses capable of being reproduced in a lab to fight antibiotic resistant infections — but experts warn that the computer-made pathogens pose “urgent” safety risks, including fears it could be used to create bioweapons. The Stanford University experiment used an AI model known as Evo1 and Evo2, which instead of modeling language of a text, like ChatGPT, are trained to predict genetic codes of viruses, bacteria, plants and even people, according to the BBC. The AI produced hundreds of designs of a specific type of virus known as bacteriophage to infect E.

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