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WHEN AI GOES TOO FAR

Arguably the most worrying news of the week is that in an America university an AI system has created a series of previously unknown viruses capable of infecting and eliminating certain types of bacteria. Fair enough, you may say, if AI can eliminate some of the most deadly bugs killing people worldwide, this is good.

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