Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses

Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses(bbc.com)

12 points by geox 4 hours ago | 4 comments

dinkelberg 2 hours ago |

Study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec2657

Commentary: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aej8512

Published 6 August 2026 in Science

mbeavitt 3 hours ago |

Didn’t see anything about how they are treating the model confidentiality - will this be released to select orgs or made open? I guess this could one of the few things I would not want to be open sourced.

zardo 2 hours ago | |

It only mentions open models.

https://github.com/arcinstitute/evo2

infotainment 43 minutes ago |

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."