Shared in Technology@lemmy.world a day ago

Human receives AI-designed virus for the first time

Linked to https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/10/22/human-receives-ai-designed-virus-for-the-first-time/5304874

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Tharkys@lemmy.wtf 35 minutes ago

Do you want zombies? Because this is how you get zombies!

Mercer@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago

Days most clickbait title goes to…

Pratai@piefed.ca 18 hours ago

This will end poorly.

A_A@lemmy.world a day ago

Brilliant. As antibiotics becomes useless, those bacteriophages will be next major medical tools.

Malica@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago

I’m excited to see what they can do

joseki@lemmy.zip a day ago

Yep the only reason modern medicine went the antibiotic route instead of the bacteriophage route was the logistical and clinical challenges in stocking 100 treatments for an infection instead of 1 (or thousands instead of dozens) but now that we can print them on demand, you just have to show the AI an infectious agent or tumor cell and it can just crank out a custom virus that kills it specifically. Won’t help with infectious prions or viruses but opens the door to new treatments for those too

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca a day ago

now that we can print them on demand, you just have to show the AI an infectious agent or tumor cell and it can just crank out a custom virus that kills it specifically.

That’s some Star Trek level bullshit.

Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world a day ago

These aren’t just any viruses, mind you: Omnii-1, the AI model publicly unveiled by Radical Numerics this week, was used to design viable bacteriophages, a type of virus that specifically infects bacteria.

Clickbait title

LocalAreaMan@lemmy.ml a day ago

True, but it is news that should give us all pause. Imagine what they could do with AI+CRISPR gene editing, which is also a virus. Probably not something good.

heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago

Oh, I’m sure their smirking at the military applications of such horrors.