AI Writes DNA, Builds Viruses

🔥 What happened Eric Nguyen, CEO of Radical Numerics, told the Latent Space podcast how genome language models (GLMs) now do chain-of-thought reasoning in DNA. His team showed models can self-optimize RNA aptamers to higher scores they were never trained on. 💡 Why it matters DNA has just 4 letters but 3 billion characters – long-context models only made this tractable ~3 years ago. Evo 2 already generated functional bacteriophage genomes. If defenders don't push the frontier openly, attackers will. ⚡ Our take If you think AI safety is just a software problem, you're not paying attention. Tomorrow's bioweapon won't be hacked – it'll be designed.