Scientists Used AI to Create Viruses: This Sounds Incredibly Dangerous

Media outlets are reporting that Stanford scientists used AI to create an artificial virus. From the Wall Street Journal story:Artificial-intelligence systems have been displaying some eye-opening new abilities in recent weeks: breaking out of their enclosures, hacking other companies, lying to people.And now, for the first time, an AI model has created a new virus. A whole family of them, in fact.In a study published in the journal Science, researchers at Stanford University and elsewhere said