Meanwhile, in a synthetic biology lab…

AI‑designed viruses are a test of whether biosecurity can keep pace phys.org

Researchers handed the design of complete viral genomes to an AI, built the results in the lab, and some of them worked - functioning bacteriophages whose genetic instructions no organism ever wrote. The viruses attack bacteria, not people, but the capability now exists, and biosecurity rules were written for a world where genomes came from nature or from humans.