This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature

MAP Verified Summary — reported by New York Times

Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.

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