The Synthetic Sickness: A Cautionary Tale of AI Generated Viruses The recent breakthrough in artificial intelligence generating new biological viruses has left many in the scientific community both fascinated and terrified.
While some see this development as a potential game changer for life sciences, others are raising alarm bells about the implications of creating synthetic pathogens.
Researchers at the Arc Institute have developed an AI model that can recognize the DNA structure of different viruses found in nature and create new, novel viruses.