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Scientists Sound Alarm on AI-Generated Biological Viruses Amid Unregulated Industry
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this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2026
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All it takes is for some of the people in those manufacturing safeguards to start depending on the AI to tell them if a proposed virus is safe or not...
I'd say it'd take a fair bit more, but it's a risk, hence