{"id":234873,"date":"2026-04-09T18:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/ai-can-design-and-run-thousands-of-lab-experiments-without-human-hands-humanity-isnt-ready-for-the-new-risks-this-brings-to-biology"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:03:56","slug":"ai-can-design-and-run-thousands-of-lab-experiments-without-human-hands-humanity-isnt-ready-for-the-new-risks-this-brings-to-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/ai-can-design-and-run-thousands-of-lab-experiments-without-human-hands-humanity-isnt-ready-for-the-new-risks-this-brings-to-biology","title":{"rendered":"AI can design and run thousands of lab experiments without human hands. Humanity isn\u2019t ready for the new risks this brings to biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-can-design-and-run-thousands-of-lab-experiments-without-human-hands-humanity-isnt-ready-for-the-new-risks-this-brings-to-biology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Faster protein engineering could mean faster responses to emerging infections and cheaper drugs.<\/p>\n<p><b>The dual-use problem<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have raised concerns that these same AI tools could be misused, a challenge known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pcbi.1012975\">dual-use problem<\/a>: Technologies developed for beneficial purposes can also be repurposed to cause harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faster protein engineering could mean faster responses to emerging infections and cheaper drugs. The dual-use problem Researchers have raised concerns that these same AI tools could be misused, a challenge known as the dual-use problem: Technologies developed for beneficial purposes can also be repurposed to cause harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234873","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}