Could AI-designed proteins become weapons? Scientists establish safety guidelines

[ad_1] The AlphaFold AI tool can engineer proteins to perform specific functions.Credit: Google DeepMind/EMBL-EBI (CC-BY-4.0) Could artificial intelligence (AI)-designed proteins ever be used as biological weapons? Hoping to avoid this possibility, as well as the prospect of burdensome government regulation, researchers today launched an initiative calling for the safe and ethical use of protein engineering. … Read more