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MIT's Kevin Esvelt on AI's ability to create viruses: This could help replace antibiotics
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6:20Now PlayingKevin Esvelt, MIT associate professor, joins '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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