NEWSNATIONNOW (Caroline Jaime) - Scientists identify genetic markers linked to Big Five personality traits
“Personality seems to be relevant nearly everywhere you look," lead author of the study Ted Schwaba said.
YOUTUBE (Facts Matter with Roman Balmakov) - Scientists Custom Print 16 Never-Before-Seen Real-World Viruses
Watch Final Hours https://ept.ms/LetsWatchFinalHours Summary: Scientists in the U.S. recently announced that for the very first time, they were able to use AI to create viruses never before seen in nature. Don’t worry, though: these new viruses were designed to target specific strains of E.coli bacteria that have become resistant to natural antibacterials. This development marks a major milestone in the field of synthetic biology, and it opens the door to potential rapid advancements in human healthcare. Maybe these AIs can develop never-before-seen cures to horrible diseases. However, on the flip side, I think after living through the early 2020s ... we can all imagine how this can go horribly wrong. So today, let’s go through the…
NYTIMES (Emily Anthes) - Gene-Editing Technology Offers New Ways to Create the Dogs of Our Dreams
Technologies like CRISPR are giving us new ways to create the dogs of our dreams — and a reason to reckon with our past mistakes.
DAILYCALLER (Dylan Kresak) - AI Could Supercharge Biological Weapons ‘Ten Times’ Scale Of COVID, Report Warns
‘might lower the technical, operational, and motivational barriers’
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - How AI could cure disease - and create new ones
Nick Bostrom, philosopher and author of the New York Times bestseller “Superintelligence”, warns that the AI models built to design new drugs carry the same capability to help design new pathogens and explains why safeguards can be stripped out.
AXIOS (Caitlin Owens) - A convergence of biological risks
What's the common thread connecting AI advances, biological breakthroughs, a preponderance of high-risk-high-reward research, escalating geopolitical tensions and a hollowed-out U.S. public health sector? - They all heighten the risk that one day a lethal human-made pathogen will emerge, either accidentally or intentionally, and we won't be ready for it. Why it matters: The same advances that make this a pivotal moment for medical innovation are intensifying the risk of catastrophic lab mishaps, though how significant a risk is hotly debated by experts. - "It is a very small tweak from trying to target a disease, and making gene therapies to try to target a disease, to turning a virus into something that can be much more detrimental,"…
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Stanford researchers create 16 new viruses using AI | NewsNation
Researchers are using AI to create new viruses, hoping to find treatments for antibiotic-resistant infections. Is that a good thing? NewsNation's Rich Bodee explains what experts are saying.
DAILYCALLER (Christine Sellers) - Scientists Raise Safety Concerns After AI Used To Design New Viruses
New viruses that can cause disease ‘should not be pursued,’ scientists say
AXIOS (Adriel Bettelheim) - AI designs new virus not found in nature
A Stanford-led research team has used generative AI to design a synthetic virus — the first time artificial intelligence has been harnessed to create a organism that has never been seen in nature. Why it matters: What could go wrong? The big picture: It could be the first step toward the nightmare scenario AI experts have already warned about: deadly pathogens that can't be stopped, because they've been created too quickly for our current surveillance systems to stop them. - The research could also lead to medical breakthroughs, which is the hope of the research team that conducted the study. "The ability of genome language models to generate entire functional genomes has not been tested," they wrote. Driving the news: Researchers…
ABCNEWS - WATCH: Dogs genetically engineered to prevent allergies
Matt Walker couldn't pet a dog without sneezing, until he and other scientists used a gene-editing technique to produce a hypoallergenic beagle named Bailey.