Generative AI Used to Create Synthetic Viruses, Triggering Urgent Biosecurity Warnings
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Artificial intelligence has officially crossed into new territory: writing complete viral genomes from scratch. While researchers hail the breakthrough as a major milestone for life sciences, leading health experts are warning that generative AI-designed pathogens could pose unprecedented biosafety and biosecurity threats if left unregulated.
