AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours

‘For me, the concern was just how easy it was to do’

AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours 1939292.0

It took less than six hours for drug-developing AI to invent 40,000 potentially lethal molecules. Researchers put AI normally used to search for helpful drugs into a kind of “bad actor” mode to show how easily it could be abused at a biological arms control conference.

All the researchers had to do was tweak their methodology to seek out, rather than weed out toxicity. The AI came up with tens of thousands of new substances, some of which are similar to VX, the most potent nerve agent ever developed. Shaken, they published their findings this month in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.

.https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/17/22983197/ai-new-possible-chemical-weapons-generative-models-vx

AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours

AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours

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