What could possibly go wrong? "Daily Mail" is reporting that scientists have utilized AI to create a new virus that had never previously existed. The virus, dubbed Evo–Φ2147, was created from scratch using artificial intelligence. The virus consists of just 11 genes, compared to the 200,000 in the human genome, making it one of the simplest forms of life on the planet. This artificial virus was specifically created to kill infectious and potentially deadly E. Coli bacteria. British scientist and entrepreneur Dr. Adrian Woolfson told the "Daily Mail," "For the last 4 billion years, all life on Earth has evolved by the trial-and-error process of Darwinian evolution by natural selection, which lacks any foresight or intention. Natural evolution now has a co-author. That co-author, the emerging ability of AI-driven genome design and genome construction technologies, has the potential to exist alongside natural evolution."
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