Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
MIT Technology Review interviews Samuel King about using generative AI to propose genetic blueprints for viruses.
MIT Technology Review published a subscriber-only roundtable in which AI reporter James O'Donnell interviews Stanford and Arc Institute bioengineering PhD candidate Samuel King. In 2025, King used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. The piece frames that work as a preliminary step toward AI-designed biological systems, not as the creation of living organisms, and notes King was named an Innovators Under 35 honoree.
- Subscriber roundtable with Stanford and Arc Institute researcher Samuel King.
- King used a generative model in 2025 to propose viral genetic blueprints.
- MIT Technology Review does not present the work as creating living organisms.
- King was named an Innovators Under 35 honoree.
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Listen to the session or watch below 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.
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