Roundtables: A Dialog With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

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Can AI design new life types? In 2025, Stanford College PhD scholar Samuel King got here up with a preliminary reply when he used a generative AI mannequin to suggest genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t but an instance of AI-generated life, however that may very well be subsequent. Watch as senior AI reporter James O’Donnell interviews King about his work, being named certainly one of MIT Know-how Evaluate’s Innovators Beneath 35 and new methods of seeing biology.

Audio system: James O’Donnell, AI Reporter, and Samuel King, Bioengineering PhD Candidate, Stanford College/Arc Institute