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I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus

The author, a specialist in AI-driven protein design, argues that creating a lethal AI-engineered virus is currently infeasible: even state-of-the-art tools struggle to produce functional peptide binders, and synthesizing, weaponizing, and distributing a virus would require extensive laboratory work. Consequently, a pandemic-scale threat from such a supervirus is unlikely for at least several decades.