The Code of Life, Rewritten: How AI-Generated Viruses Are Sparking a New Era of Biosecurity Debates
Main Facts In a landmark convergence of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology, researchers at the Arc Institute in Palo Alto, California, alongside colleagues at Stanford University, have successfully utilized an advanced AI model to generate functional, non-natural viral genomes. The model, designated as “Evo,” operates on principles analogous to large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT….
