Urgent Warning: AI-Designed Proteins Threaten Global Biosecurity, Bypass Current Screening
Urgent Warning: AI-Designed Proteins Threaten Global Biosecurity, Bypass Current Screening A critical new vulnerability, dubbed a ‘biological zero-day,’ has been identified by a team of researchers led by Microsoft, revealing a significant gap in current systems designed to protect against biological threats. The discovery highlights how existing DNA sequence screening tools, which typically flag dangerous toxins or viruses, are increasingly susceptible to missing sophisticated new threats: AI-designed toxins. This alarming development points to an unrecognized security hole in the global…