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AI Can Now Make Deepfake Biological Viruses. We Are Not Prepared

AI can now read and edit DNA, enabling the creation of deepfaked biological viruses, according to a Forbes report by senior contributor John Koetsier. The technology offers significant medical benefits but poses severe biosecurity risks that current safeguards are unprepared to address.

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AI Can Now Make Deepfake Biological Viruses. We Are Not Prepared
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By John Koetsier, Senior ContributorSource:

Forbes InnovationAI can now read and edit DNA. That has tremendous upside, medically. But it also has enormous dangers, including deepfaked biological viruses.

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