Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery

Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery

Urbina, F., Lentzos, F., Invernizzi, C., & Ekins, S. (2022) Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery. Nature Machine Intelligence, 4(3), 189–191. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-022-00465-9

An international security conference explored how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for drug discovery could be misused for de novo design of biochemical weapons. A thought experiment evolved into a computational proof.