Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

Available only for MIT Technology Review subscribers. 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.

仅限《麻省理工科技评论》订阅者访问。请收听会议内容或观看下方视频。人工智能可以设计新的生命形式吗？2025年，斯坦福大学博士生塞缪尔·金（Samuel King）给出了一个初步答案，他利用生成式人工智能模型提出了微观病毒的基因蓝图。这还不是人工智能生成生命的例子，但未来可能会实现。

Watch as senior AI reporter James O’Donnell interviews King about his work, being named one of MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 and new ways of seeing biology. Speakers: James O’Donnell, AI Reporter, and Samuel King, Bioengineering PhD Candidate, Stanford University/Arc Institute Recorded on Friday, October 16, 2026.

观看资深人工智能记者詹姆斯·奥唐奈（James O’Donnell）对金的采访，内容涵盖他的研究工作、入选《麻省理工科技评论》“35岁以下科技创新35人”名单，以及看待生物学的新视角。演讲者：人工智能记者詹姆斯·奥唐奈，以及斯坦福大学/Arc研究所生物工程博士候选人塞缪尔·金。录制于2026年10月16日，星期五。

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相关报道：他让AI设计病毒……结果成功了。AI设计的病毒已经出现，并正在杀死细菌。深度报道：人工智能。别被骗了——大语言模型不会推理。在AlphaGo与围棋冠军李世石对弈十年后，今天的人工智能仍未触及促成那场胜利的机制。作者：托尔·格雷佩尔（Thore Graepel）。

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all. AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems. By Michelle Kim. Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype. Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny. By Timnit Gebru and Emily M. Bender.

人工智能的递归自我提升或许并不会那么快到来。看起来，人工智能体目前还没有足够的创造力来进行真正创新的开放式人工智能研究。作者：米歇尔·金（Michelle Kim）。别被这个夏天的人工智能炒作所迷惑。关于通用人工智能（AGI）和新能力的夸大宣传在审查下很快就会破灭。作者：蒂姆尼特·格布鲁（Timnit Gebru）和艾米丽·M·本德（Emily M. Bender）。

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