{
  "id": 17515,
  "url": "https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6016432-artificial-intelligence-synthetic-virus-creation",
  "title": "AI used to create synthetic virus",
  "summary": "Scientists have used artificial intelligence to design complete, functioning viruses with genomes never seen before in nature — a breakthrough that could open new avenues for fighting drug-resistant bacterial infections. A Stanford University-led research team used generative AI models trained on millions of genomes to design viruses, known as bacteriophages, that can kill bacteria like...",
  "authors": "Finya Swai",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "healthcare",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-07T15:03:41.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-08T05:10:34.355Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-hill-technology",
  "source_name": "The Hill Technology",
  "source_homepage": "https://thehill.com/policy/technology/",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17515",
  "original_url": "https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6016432-artificial-intelligence-synthetic-virus-creation",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}