Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses.
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Key points
- Can AI design new life forms?
- Join senior AI reporter James O’Donnell as he interviews King about his work, being named one of MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 and new ways of seeing biology.
- Speakers: James O’Donnell, AI Reporter, and Samuel King, Bioengineering PhD Candidate, Stanford University/Arc Institute
- AI-designed viruses are here and already killing bacteria
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- [1]Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed VirusesMIT Technology Review (AI) · Oct 9, 12:08 AM
In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses.
Can AI design new life forms?
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