AI-Generated Virus to Kill Bacteria — Not Ethical?

Note: This article is to raise awareness of safety of playing/making/production with virus, be it be virus vaccine development.

Trained on EVO, a bio version of ChatGPT, no not by OpenAI, trained on all living species, was run to find the virus on 2 million bacteriophage viruses. [2]

Evo 2, trained on trillions of DNA across different organisms, animals and species.

Evo 2 trained with 7B parameters.

They chemically printed 302 DNA strands and mixed them with bacteria? Does it not sound odd? Does it not raise an alarm? What are we making?

Is it even a question that this is not ethical?

16 of the above 302 strands landed up killing the bacteria on live test. Does that mean they were mixed with bacteria? What an experiment? No one’s saying anything?

Some vaccines have virus too, then the following holds for vaccine development safety as well.

What about by-products? Biological bioproducts?

Can bio-weapons be generated?

Are safety measures taken in labs for accidental leaks of viruses/bacteria and by-products?

How can we make a virus in labs right there in the USA?

And nobody argues?

Have we forgotten the virus leaked from Wuhan, China, five years ago?

Do you remember WHO going to the Wuhan lab repeatedly to verify what happened?

Should we even think of such a thing?

According to the MIT Review, “a virus that infects bacteria — called phiX174, has only 11 genes and about 5,000 DNA letters.”

E.Coli? Can we make drugs to fight bacteria?

Why Virus?

Why not look for cures?

Why is a virus generated to treat a bacterial infection?

One day, if this goes on, human cells could be killed too?

Do we need to see it?

What if some side virus is generated and spreads in the atmosphere?

What if a side virus is made and leaks into the air?

How much is safe?

Why is no one saying anything about it?

Or we keep fighting for AI models? And forget to even see this?

Is this Jurassic Park lab in the making?

Reference

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03055-y

[2] https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/17/1123801/ai-virus-bacteriophage-life/