Scientists Trained an AI to Design 17,000 Viruses

Because biologists are among the most common scientists and AIs like large language models can be trained to design viruses the potential for making bioweapon designer viruses is a clear and present danger. Society ho hums that sort of thing these days. Funding the Ukraine war and protecting oil have higher priorities to most politicians. Global heating and the decline in health of the ecosphere are commonly ignored.

17,000 viruses were designed by a single AI program. It was made to invade e coli rather than humans. Still the tech now exists. And as was mentioned in The Field of Dreams ( or nightmares); “If you build it they will come”.

https://www.engadget.com/2232014/ai-is-now-making-new-viruses/

AI Could Eliminate Hackers or Create the Greatest Challenge

 One might wonder if AI will be used to eliminate hackers some day. An internet without computer viruses might be a more comfortable environment. It may be that some unusual problems such as programmers hiding back doors in AI code might be difficult to eliminate. If AI is used to check for viruses hidden within their own code or the code of other AIs the AI could develop a self-learning inclination to consistently rewrite its code.

https://suno.com/song/cec5f3d1-178e-40e2-8ef0-04ae3484b944?sh=SDjvxvbkdysQQSPm

Working in a grocery store the thought occurred to me, with a vast array of different products on shelves, that it might be easier to eliminate ongoing tampon charges as a recurrent thing with a recycling tampon spun in a centrifuge and sterilized for reuse- with or without disposable filter inserts into a plastic holder or some entirely recyclable filter, than it would be to either eliminate computer virus coding without AI help or with AI doing  the work.

I have no idea if AI has yet been introduced into toilets. It seems as inevitable as AI coffee maker brewing controls in order to accomplish that Stephen King book where every little machine turns against humans a best they can. Microwave toilets would eliminate sewage treatment in parched areas if they were manufactured an powered by  solar panels or fuel cells. AI may be used for careful home heating and cooling calculations based o interior and exterior temperatures, rooms that are used and rooms that need be heated while others can be allowed to cool down or warm up.

Considering potential applications of AI is rather entertaining. I would guess that when AI becomes really advanced that hacking it will be for hackers a challenge like it was for Mallory to attempt to scale Mt. Everest.