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Researchers at Stanford/Arc Institute just created the first AI-generated, entirely new viruses from scratch that successfully infect and kill bacteria, a breakthrough in computational biology. (arcinstitute.org)

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[–] hotspur@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Amazing work, but can’t help but worry about the downsides of synthetically generated viruses being deployed…