New patches to biosecurity screening software can make it harder to produce potentially harmful proteins using artificial intelligence.
Around the world, this software monitors processes to artificially make proteins, ensuring that people with bad intentions aren’t producing dangerous proteins, such as toxins. Making slight tweaks with AI to known toxins or viral proteins can bypass the safeguards, researchers report in the Oct. 2 Science. But reinforcing gaps in screening can boost the programs’ ability to flag risky AI-designed proteins.
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