Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

The roundtable features Stanford PhD student Samuel King discussing his 2025 work in which a generative AI model was used to draft genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. While it does not yet represent a fully AI‑generated organism, the effort illustrates AI’s emerging role in biological design and raises bio‑security concerns.

Summary written by Kernelia from the original article by MIT Technology Review. The story and its rights belong to its author.