A ‘thought experiment’ was aimed at pointing out the danger of misusing artificial intelligence
A drug-developing Artificial Intelligence needed just six hours to come up with 40,000 potentially deadly chemical weapons, a fresh study has revealed.
The authors of the paper, published in Nature Machine Intelligence earlier this month, said they’d carried out the ‘thought experiment’ to figure out if artificial intelligence (AI) could be misused by evil actors. And the results their work produced have proven that the danger is real.
As part of the study, the usual data was given to the AI, but it was programmed to process it in a different way, looking for toxic combinations.
“In less than six hours after starting on our in-house server, our model generated 40,000 molecules that scored within our desired threshold,” the paper said.
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