AI Creates New Viruses, Raising Hope and Biosecurity Fears | WION Podcast

Artificial intelligence has crossed a remarkable frontier by helping scientists design functioning bacteriophages with genomes not found in nature, highlighting how generative models are moving from analysing biology to creating new biological sequences. Researchers say the engineered viruses were built to attack bacteria, including strains of E. coli, raising hopes that similar approaches could strengthen phage therapy and help tackle antibiotic resistance. At the same time, experts warn that the ability to generate whole viral genomes creates serious biosafety and biosecurity challenges if such technology is misused or applied to more dangerous organisms. Earlier work on the Evo genomic AI family demonstrated that such models can learn and generate long biological sequences, underscoring the rapidly advancing capabilities behind this field. The breakthrough therefore sits at a difficult intersection between powerful medical innovation and the need for stronger safeguards.

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