Interesting article about the arms race between AI systems that invent/design new biological pathogens, and AI systems that detect them before they’re created: > The team started with a basic test: use AI tools to design variants of the > toxin ricin, then test them against the software that is used to screen DNA > orders. The results of the test suggested there was a risk of dangerous > protein variants slipping past existing screening software, so the situation > was treated like the equivalent of a zero-day vulnerability. > > […] > > Details of that original test are ...