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  "id": 12991348,
  "title": "Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/roundtables-a-conversation-with-the-creator-of-ai-designed-viruses",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-09T00:08:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MIT Technology Review",
    "slug": "mit-technology-review",
    "url": "https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/08/1146224/roundtables-a-conversation-with-the-creator-of-ai-designed-viruses/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Friday, October 16, 2026 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. Join senior AI reporter…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}