U.S. Scientists Assembled Viruses That Were Designed by AI — They Were Shocked When They Started Hunting Down Bacteria and Reproducing

Now we are allowing AI to create new viruses?  Are we mad?  What scientists at Stanford University are doing sounds like the plot to a really bad disaster movie.  Viruses that are designed by AI are assembled by crazy researchers, and then those viruses start hunting down bacteria and reproducing.  Needless to say, it doesn’t take much imagination to see where the rest of the movie would go.  I realize that all of this sounds completely insane, but this is actually happening in real life.  Our scientists really are assembling viruses that have been dreamed up by AI, and those viruses really are “capable of hunting down and killing strains of Escherichia coli”…

Scientists have created the first ever viruses designed by artificial intelligence (AI), and they’re capable of hunting down and killing strains of Escherichia coli (E. coli).

“This is the first time AI systems are able to write coherent genome-scale sequences,” says Brian Hie, a computational biologist at Stanford University, California. “The next step is AI-generated life,” says Hie, although his colleague Samuel King adds that “a lot of experimental advances need to occur in order to design an entire living organism”.

We are bringing viruses into existence that have never existed before.

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I guess when AI gets smart enough to know that we can pull the plug, the robots will kill the humans. The story always ends that way. There is some stuff we should just leave alone