AI Designs New Viruses Not Found in Nature
- Stanford University researchers used artificial intelligence to design 16 fully functional, replicable bacteriophages, marking the first time generative AI has designed a complete, viable viral genome.
- The team trained AI models on genetic codes to predict DNA sequences, then synthesized 302 promising designs after modeling them on the X174 phage template.
- Of 285 outputs tested, 16 phages proved viable, with many demonstrating greater effectiveness at killing bacteria than the original template; these viruses pose no threat to humans.
- Experts Thomas Inglesby and Moritz Hanke from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security warned the findings raise "urgent biosafety and biosecurity questions," while Hie argued the potential to "massively improve human health" outweighs risks.
- This study represents a "very significant turning point" in synthetic biology, according to Prof Marc from Pompeu Fabra University, with researchers now exploring whether AI can design even more complex organisms.
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Researchers at Stanford and the Arc Institute publish in Science 16 bacteriophages generated entirely by a language model. None infect people, but biosafety experts ask to prohibit by law the application of the technique to human pathogens Read
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Scientists Warn Of Urgent AI Biosecurity Threat Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, For the first time, artificial intelligence has designed complete, functional viral genomes from scratch. Oh dear. Stanford University and Arc Institute researchers used generative AI models to produce 16 novel bacteriophages that successfully infect and kill bacteria in the lab. Breaking News: Scientists have used A.I. to create new viruses for the fi…
Scientists unveil first AI-designed virus
What happenedScientists at Stanford University on Thursday reported in the journal Science that they had successfully directed artificial intelligence to create 16 new viruses. This first-ever use of AI to design and build viruses not found in nature raised “hopes for medical advances” like eliminating drug-resistant bacteria, The New York Times said, while also “raising the disturbing possibility that the technology could someday be used to inv…
Researchers have designed viruses for the first time using artificial intelligence and then produced them in the laboratory.The method could open up new possibilities in the fight against resistant germs, while the experts warn.
Conspiracy lovers will unleash by reading the news and, as an accomplice to the unsuffered memories of the pandemic and the process in the U.S. to the infectious scientist Anthony Fauci, will flourish the most disparate hypotheses and even some fake news. Actually the study published in Science and commented in an article in the New York Times shows once again the potentialities of artificial intelligence in the field of medicine and scientific …
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