BBC Reports on AI Designing New Viruses, Sparking Open Weights Regulation Debate
johnnyApplePRNG · reddit · 2026-08-07
The BBC published an article titled "Artificial Intelligence used to design brand new viruses." The poster predicts that this will soon trigger a wave of articles and public opinion advocating for the regulation of open-weight models to prevent the next pandemic or worse.
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