{"id":242603,"date":"2026-08-12T21:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/ai-can-now-edit-dna-and-create-deepfake-viruses"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:04:06","slug":"ai-can-now-edit-dna-and-create-deepfake-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/ai-can-now-edit-dna-and-create-deepfake-viruses","title":{"rendered":"AI can now edit DNA and create deepfake viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U56V84gvRMU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Screening Breakdown: The world\u2019s primary defense against synthetic bioweapons is sequence matching. When a lab orders DNA, automated software checks the order against a \u201cblocklist\u201d of dangerous pathogens (like Smallpox or Anthrax).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>AI is moving beyond text, images, and code. Now it\u2019s learning to read and write \u2014 shall we say program \u2014 DNA.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of NEXT, John Koetsier talks with Eric Nguyen, co-founder and CEO of Radical Numerics, about the rapidly emerging world of biological AI.<\/p>\n<p>Nguyen and his team helped create Evo and Evo 2, generative foundation models for DNA, and are now working toward what they call \u201cgeneral biological intelligence\u201d: AI systems capable of understanding biology across DNA, gene expression, methylation, proteins, and other biological signals.<\/p>\n<p>The potential upside is enormous.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/ai-can-now-edit-dna-and-create-deepfake-viruses\">Continue reading \u201cAI can now edit DNA and create deepfake viruses\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Screening Breakdown: The world\u2019s primary defense against synthetic bioweapons is sequence matching. When a lab orders DNA, automated software checks the order against a \u201cblocklist\u201d of dangerous pathogens (like Smallpox or Anthrax). AI is moving beyond text, images, and code. Now it\u2019s learning to read and write \u2014 shall we say program \u2014 DNA. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242603","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}