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MIT's Kevin Esvelt on AI's ability to create viruses
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August 7, 2026
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0:42Now PlayingMIT associate professor Kevin Esvelt joins CNBC's "Squawk Box" to discuss a new study from the Arc Institute that found AI created new recipes for virus genomes after prompts from scientists, Covid origins, and more.
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