The same programs that detect drugs for diseases can also design deadly gas. The AI experts are faced with the question of how to deal with this dangerous knowledge.
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Jannis Bruehl
When Fabio Urbina looked at his computer in the morning, it had developed a frightening life of its own. “We just let the artificial intelligence run overnight on an old Macbook and went home.” When he came back the next day, he said to himself, “I’ll see if it worked.” The expert in adaptive software sat down at the computer and saw a long list of deadly combinations of chemical substances: “I was shocked.”