Current Events > AI "creates" 40,000 chemical weapons in a few hours.

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("Creates" in quotes because, at least based on the impression I get from the article, it didn't physically create them. More like it designed them.)

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to search for breakthrough drugs to help improve human life, but a new study has found a huge potential for creating deadly biochemical weapons instead.

Researchers at Collaborations Pharmaceuticals used a conference at the Swiss Spiez Laboratory to examine how technologies for drug discovery could be misused.

And in just six hours of operating their model produced more than 40,000 potential deadly molecules, including some closely related to nerve agent VX.

The researchers, in a report entitled 'Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery' for the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, said they had never previously considered the use of AI for nefarious purposes.

Full article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/technology/2022/03/ai-model-creates-40-000-potential-new-deadly-bioweapons-in-just-six-hours.html

"here take this it'll get rid of your asthma"

"This is zyklon b"

"Nothing I said is incorrect"

Yet, we still can't get a light beer that doesn't taste like ass.

Tyranthraxus posted...

"here take this it'll get rid of your asthma"

"This is zyklon b"

"Nothing I said is incorrect"

When you're right, you're right KillBot9000

At least 1 of those 40,000 must be some kind of a zombie/rage virus, I'm begging you!!

Trumble posted...

The researchers, in a report entitled 'Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery' for the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, said they had never previously considered the use of AI for nefarious purposes.

Really?

EmbraceOfDeath posted...

Really?

That was my first reaction too, although I can kinda understand the possibility of them getting so caught up in the amazing good stuff they can do with it that they didn't (until now) stop to think about the bad.

If it's so bad, then why are the publicly telling the public, "Hey, this is something that you could do that you never thought of before!"

It's why I have never told anyone my biggest fear about drones. I don't want to put the idea out there