{"id":9945,"date":"2026-10-16T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/2026\/10\/16\/roundtables-a-conversation-with-the-creator-of-ai-designed-viruses-2\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T20:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:00:12","slug":"roundtables-a-conversation-with-the-creator-of-ai-designed-viruses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/2026\/10\/16\/roundtables-a-conversation-with-the-creator-of-ai-designed-viruses-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Listen to the session or watch below<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wp.technologyreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Roundtables_AIDesignedViruses.m4a\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/innovator\/samuel-king-ai-designed-viruses\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/innovator\/samuel-king-ai-designed-viruses\/\"><strong>Samuel King<\/strong><\/a> came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn\u2019t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next. Watch as senior AI reporter James O&#8217;Donnell interviews King about his work, being named one of MIT Technology Review&#8217;s Innovators Under 35 and new ways of seeing biology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong><strong><strong>Speakers<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><em><strong><strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/author\/james-odonnell\/\"> James O&#8217;Donnell<\/a><\/strong>, AI Reporter, and <strong>Samuel King<\/strong>, Bioengineering PhD Candidate, Stanford University\/Arc Institute<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1236645019?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Recorded on Friday, October 16, 2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Related Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/innovator\/samuel-king-ai-designed-viruses\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/innovator\/samuel-king-ai-designed-viruses\/\">He asked an AI to design viruses \u2026 and it worked.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/09\/17\/1123801\/ai-virus-bacteriophage-life\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/09\/17\/1123801\/ai-virus-bacteriophage-life\/\">AI-designed viruses are here and already killing bacteria<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019t yet an example of AI-generated life, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-9945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mit-feed","tag-mit-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}