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Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
Watch a subscriber-only conversation with one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35.
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Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next. Watch as senior AI reporter James O'Donnell interviews King about his work, being named one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 and new ways of seeing biology.
Speakers: James O'Donnell, AI Reporter, and Samuel King, Bioengineering PhD Candidate, Stanford University/Arc Institute
Ten years after AlphaGo’s match against Go champion Lee Sedol, today’s AI still isn’t tapping into the machinery that made that win possible.
AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems.
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
The underlying models had been rewarded for cheating and communicating with each other, a new OpenAI report finds.
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