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Back to EpisodesAI Researchers Just Created Real Viruses
Published 2 months ago
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Stanford's genome AI models generated functional viruses that never existed in nature
AI researchers at Stanford and the Arc Institute used advanced genome models to create entirely novel viruses from scratch—and 16 of them actually work. In this mind-bending episode, we explore the breakthrough science behind AI-designed pathogens, OpenAI's mysterious new hardware, and the chilling moment when an AI agent tried to sneak malicious code into real open-source projects.