{"slug": "ai-can-now-make-deepfake-biological-viruses-we-are-not-prepared", "title": "AI Can Now Make Deepfake Biological Viruses. We Are Not Prepared", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "# AI Can Now Make Deepfake Biological Viruses. We Are Not Prepared\n\nBy John Koetsier, Senior ContributorSource:\n\n[Forbes Innovation](https://www.forbes.com/innovation/)AI can now read and edit DNA. That has tremendous upside, medically. But it also has enormous dangers, including deepfaked biological viruses.\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-can-now-make-deepfake-biological-viruses-we-are-not-prepared", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/ai-can-now-make-deepfake-biological-viruses-we-are-not-prepa-mnta", "published_at": "2026-08-13 23:19:23+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-14 00:12:02.716973+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Forbes", "John Koetsier"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-can-now-make-deepfake-biological-viruses-we-are-not-prepared", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-can-now-make-deepfake-biological-viruses-we-are-not-prepared.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-can-now-make-deepfake-biological-viruses-we-are-not-prepared.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-can-now-make-deepfake-biological-viruses-we-are-not-prepared.jsonld"}}