Cartilage Regeneration, Chatbot Virus, Hit Song Prediction
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The Dangers of Using Chatbots to Develop Dangerous Viruses
Esvald students were able to use chatbots to develop highly contagious viruses and get instructions for actually making them. There were four they recommended the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish flu and avian influenza virus from 2012, a smallpox virus and a strain of one called the NEPA virus. The bots also explained ways to assemble the viruses from their genetic sequences offered up a list of lab supplies needed to do the work and even suggested companies that might be willing to create it.
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