You can order custom DNA online and have it printed and posted to your door. That's ordinary science, and it's also one of the last checkpoints between an AI-designed idea and something real in the world. In this episode, Kieren and Riku close out their AIBIO-UK mini-series by asking what actually stops AI being used to cause biological harm: the guardrails on large language models (LLMs), the tools that design proteins, and the companies screening what DNA gets printed. Some barriers hold up better than you'd expect, while others barely exist. Tune in to find out which is which.
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