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Posted on 08/06/2026 2:51:37 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Artificial Intelligence has been used to design brand new viruses that are fully functional and can replicate in the laboratory, say US researchers.
It is the first time whole genomes have been successfully designed by AI.
The resulting 16 novel viruses were created to infect bacteria and pose no threat to people.
The breakthrough has been labelled a "very significant turning point" in science that could unlock a new era for treating disease. But experts have also warned AI-designed viruses raise "urgent" safety and security concerns.
AI tools are rapidly advancing and have already been used to design new antibiotics.
But that is relatively simple compared with designing a new viable virus from scratch.
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Oh neato.
Bet AI can figure out how to spread them REALLY fast, too!
Well well, what could go wrong?!?!
This time...
There is a huge difference between design and production.
Wonderful. Humans playing God has worked out so well in the past....
The ruling classes really really want to exterminate most of the world's population. That's why.
this is why I don’t think there are advanced civilizations...our advancing technology ultimately wipes us out....probably by accident.
SO, it’s like your typical Communist (paranoid/ megalomanic/ Island of Dr. Moreau/ sociopathic Chinese Laboratory is imagined to be ...
but on steroids!
Of course it is.
Bet AI can figure out how to spread them REALLY fast, too!
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And to specific races and ethnicities!
Xi, what could go wrong?
Dr. Fauxci pleaded the fifth in AI
This AI shit is going to kill us all. I postulated over a year ago that a malevolent AI could use a CRISPR system to engineer a virus that spreads fast enough to infect everyone before it suddenly turns fatal. It's in my posting history right here on Free Republic.
Once AI gets sick and tired of our species’ violence and hatred of each other, voila!
Viruses galore. Goodbye, humanity.
No problemo. Just aks artificial intelligence how to cure them.
Like that Star Trek episode, where the nomadic robot was designed to sterilize imperfect populations.
What an utterly awesome idea.
Not.
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