Making lethal molecules

Nobody wants to restrict new drug research, but let's think about how to control access to certain machine-learning models, public databases, and chemical synthesis pharmaceutical plants needed to create ultra-lethal molecules.

The Spiez lab is one of five in the world certified by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to identify developments in chemistry, biology, and enabling technologies that have implications for the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

February 27, 2023

LONDON, U.K.—“We are but one very small company (among) many hundreds of companies using AI software for drug discovery and de novo design,” write authors in the scientific journal Nature Machine Learning last year. “How many of them have.....

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