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The replicants are on their way...
In this particular case, the AI agent was used to design bacteriophage viruses - known as phage - that could be used to destroy harmful bacteria. The AI model succeeded in designing totally novel viruses, never encountered before.
If one extrapolates, AI models should eventually be able to design living organisms - viruses are not considered to be living things - and more complex living things. Perhaps, even, one day, advanced animal forms of life or... a new type of human being.
What could possibly go wrong?
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Artificial Intelligence has been used to design brand new viruses that are fully functional and can replicate in the laboratory, say US researchers.
It is the first time whole genomes have been successfully designed by AI.
The resulting 16 novel viruses were created to infect bacteria and pose no threat to people.
The breakthrough has been labelled a "very significant turning point" in science that could unlock a new era for treating disease. But experts have also warned AI-designed viruses raise "urgent" safety and security concerns.
AI tools are rapidly advancing and have already been used to design new antibiotics.
But that is relatively simple compared with designing a new viable virus from scratch.
[...] The AI models were trained on genetic codes from viruses, bacteria, plants and people.
They were then refined to produce a type of virus, known as a bacteriophage, which infect only specific species of bacteria. [...]
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