“When I do a puzzle with my daughters, there is usually an elephant next to a giraffe next to a rhino,” said Prof. Ron Milo of the Weizmann Institute of Science. “But if I was trying to give them a more realistic sense of the world, it would be a cow next to a cow next to a cow and then a chicken.”
Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Cows that Blow Up, and Could Blast Our Future
[NOTE: The burgeoning AI saga gets more unnerving every week. Here’s a concise report on how it’s now “imagining” new killer molecules, not yet actually made, but which (probably soon) can be. How will they be stopped or controlled —?]
Making Unbelievably Lethal Designer Molecules
Gwynne Dyer — Feb 27, 2023
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We are but one very small company (among) many hundreds of companies using AI software for drug discovery and de novo design. How many of them have…the know-how to find the pockets of chemical space that can be filled with molecules predicted to be orders of magnitude more toxic than VX?” This is a warning that requires a little explanation. Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Designing New Molecules of Death