AI Writes Synthetic Viruses From Scratch: Medical Miracle or Biosecurity Nightmare?
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, In a groundbreaking and controversial biological milestone, researchers have officially crossed the threshold from using artificial intelligence to analyze life to using AI to create it. For the first time, scientists have trained generative AI models to author entirely synthetic viral genomes from scratch—and successfully revived them in a laboratory setting.
