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AI-created viruses: the diseases of the future?

It sounds like a classic Hollywood scenario: viruses created by AI in a laboratory using top-secret formulas. Yet what a few decades ago would have been merely another conspiracy theory could instead become a turning point for medicine in the future. At least, that is what researchers at the Arc Institute and Stanford University. The new AI-created viruses will, in fact, be crucial to developing new drugs and revolutionary therapies, allowing medicine to eradicate increasingly aggressive bacterial strains before they can harm the body. But scientific circles are already debating the discovery’s ethical implications and, above all, the risks it…