{"id":222899,"date":"2025-10-04T04:26:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/ai-could-make-it-easier-to-create-bioweapons-that-bypass-current-security-protocols"},"modified":"2025-10-04T04:26:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:26:05","slug":"ai-could-make-it-easier-to-create-bioweapons-that-bypass-current-security-protocols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/ai-could-make-it-easier-to-create-bioweapons-that-bypass-current-security-protocols","title":{"rendered":"AI could make it easier to create bioweapons that bypass current security protocols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-could-make-it-easier-to-create-bioweapons-that-bypass-current-security-protocols2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence is transforming biology and medicine by accelerating the discovery of new drugs and proteins and making it easier to design and manipulate DNA, the building blocks of life. But as with most new technologies, there is a potential downside. The same AI tools could be used to develop dangerous new pathogens and toxins that bypass current security checks. In a new study from Microsoft, scientists employed a hacker-style test to demonstrate that AI-generated sequences could evade security software used by DNA manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that the ongoing advancement of AI-assisted <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/protein\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protein<\/a> design holds great promise for tackling critical challenges in health and the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/life+sciences\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">life sciences<\/a>, with the potential to deliver overwhelmingly positive impacts on people and society,\u201d commented the researchers in their paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adu8578\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Science<\/i>. \u201cAs with other emerging technologies, however, it is also crucial to proactively identify and mitigate risks arising from novel capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence is transforming biology and medicine by accelerating the discovery of new drugs and proteins and making it easier to design and manipulate DNA, the building blocks of life. But as with most new technologies, there is a potential downside. The same AI tools could be used to develop dangerous new pathogens and toxins [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}