{"id":24302,"date":"2026-08-07T07:37:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/safety-fears-as-scientists-make-first-viruses-designed-by-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:37:56","slug":"safety-fears-as-scientists-make-first-viruses-designed-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/safety-fears-as-scientists-make-first-viruses-designed-by-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say breakthrough offers hope for new medicines but also raises urgent biosecurity questions<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have made the first viruses designed by artificial intelligence in a milestone that raises hopes for new medicines but also concerns over how to ensure the technology remains safe.<\/p>\n<p>The viruses are specific kinds known as bacteriophages, which only infect bacteria and are used around the world to treat patients with persistent infections. In lab tests, a cocktail of the AI-designed viruses killed <em>E<\/em><em> coli<\/em> bugs that were resistant to natural bacteriophages.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/aug\/06\/safety-fears-as-scientists-make-first-viruses-designed-by-ai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c91be6cb6b52fd5a680eca5ee6fb30ab1009b679\/218_0_3333_2667\/master\/3333.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1a072e0eab8989cb62eeba7aa7d39e73\" title=\"Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI\" \/>Researchers say breakthrough offers hope for new medicines but also raises urgent biosecurity questions<br \/>\nScientists have made the first viruses designed by artificial intelligence in a milestone that raises hopes for new medicines but also concerns over how to ensure the technology remains safe.<br \/>\nThe viruses are specific kinds known as bacteriophages, which only infect bacteria and are used around the world to treat patients with persistent infections. In lab tests, a cocktail of the AI-designed viruses killed E coli bugs that were resistant to natural bacteriophages. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say breakthrough offers hope for new medicines but also raises urgent biosecurity questions Scientists have made the first viruses designed by artificial intelligence in a milestone that raises hopes for new medicines but also concerns over how to ensure the technology remains safe. The viruses are specific kinds known as bacteriophages, which only infect &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/safety-fears-as-scientists-make-first-viruses-designed-by-ai\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}