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Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

Via MIT Tech Review AI
Friday, Oct 9, 2026 · 12:08AM
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Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? 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. It isn’t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next

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