AI bio-risk debate: if AI can design a super-virus, another AI can design the vaccine
RichmanRonald · x · 2026-09-14
A debate on AI bio-risk: one side worries AI could engineer a highly infectious deadly virus. The rebuttal notes these takes ignore the immune system, and that developing drugs against viruses is now relatively easy—if AI can create a super-virus, another AI can develop defenses like vaccines, as demonstrated by the 3-day Covid vaccine turnaround.
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