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Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
Publisher description: Listen to the session or watch below Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next. Watch…
MIT Technology Review | Oct 16, 2026 | MIT Technology Review
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Watch a subscriber-only conversation with one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35. October 16, 2026 Available only for MIT Technology Review subscribers. Watch as senior AI reporter James O'Donnell interviews King about his work, being named one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 and new ways of seeing biology.
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