US researchers have announced that artificial intelligence has been used to design new viruses that are fully functional and capable of replicating in a laboratory. With this development, for the first time in history, entire genomes have been successfully designed by artificial intelligence.
elchi reports that the 16 new laboratory-produced viruses were designed solely to infect bacteria and pose no threat to human health.
Described as a “very important milestone” in the scientific world, this step is said to potentially open a new era in the treatment of diseases.
However, experts warn that viruses designed with artificial intelligence also bring “urgent” security issues with them.
Rapidly evolving artificial intelligence tools have previously been used to design new antibiotics. However, it is stated that designing a living and functional virus from scratch is a simpler process compared to this research.
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