Flutterby™! : Neurotoxins to order

Next unread comment / Catchup all unread comments User Account Info | Logout | XML/Pilot/etc versions | Long version (with comments) | Weblog archives | Site Map | | Browse Topics

Neurotoxins to order

2025-10-03 20:55:42.201472+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Not sure how we're gonna get this genie back in the bottle. Back in 2022, Nature Machine Intelligence: Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery (subscription only, sigh) pointed out that you could take the models being used for drug discovery and ask them for negative outcomes, and get nasty neurotoxins.

Science: Made to order bioweapon? AI-designed toxins slip through safety checks used by companies selling genes. You can mail order them!

Via Elf Sternberg.

[ related topics: Health tolkien Nature and environment Bioinformatics Artificial Intelligence ]

comments in descending chronological order (reverse):

Add your own comment:




Format with:

(You should probably use "Text" mode: URLs will be mostly recognized and linked, _underscore quoted_ text is looked up in a glossary, _underscore quoted_ (http://xyz.pdq) becomes a link, without the link in the parenthesis it becomes a <cite> tag. All <cite>ed text will point to the Flutterby knowledge base. Two enters (ie: a blank line) gets you a new paragraph, special treatment for paragraphs that are manually indented or start with "#" (as in "#include" or "#!/usr/bin/perl"), "/* " or ">" (as in a quoted message) or look like lists, or within a paragraph you can use a number of HTML tags:

p, img, br, hr, a, sub, sup, tt, i, b, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, cite, em, strong, code, samp, kbd, pre, blockquote, address, ol, dl, ul, dt, dd, li, dir, menu, table, tr, td, th

Comment policy

We will not edit your comments. However, we may delete your comments, or cause them to be hidden behind another link, if we feel they detract from the conversation. Commercial plugs are fine, if they are relevant to the conversation, and if you don't try to pretend to be a consumer. Annoying endorsements will be deleted if you're lucky, if you're not a whole bunch of people smarter and more articulate than you will ridicule you, and we will leave such ridicule in place.

Flutterby™ is a trademark claimed by

Dan Lyke
for the web publications at www.flutterby.com and www.flutterby.net.