AI creates 16 new viruses that never existed in nature after learning DNA’s pattern from 9 trillion nucleotides

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AI creates 16 new viruses that never existed in nature after learning DNA’s pattern from 9 trillion nucleotides — experts warn such applications are way ahead of necessary guardrails Tom's Hardware

AI creates 16 new viruses that never existed in nature after learning DNA’s pattern from 9 trillion nucleotides

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