Scientists Used AI to Create 16 New Viruses
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AI-assisted virus design collapsing timelines for both therapeutics and potential misuse means biosecurity and research are now entangled. If you operate in life sciences or cloud AI, expect tighter scrutiny on model access, dataset provenance, and experiment logging long before regulation fully catches up.
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