{"id":23684,"date":"2026-10-09T01:01:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=23684"},"modified":"2026-10-09T01:01:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:01:58","slug":"roundtables-a-conversation-with-the-creator-of-ai-designed-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=23684","title":{"rendered":"Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Friday, October 16, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student <strong>Samuel King<\/strong> came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn\u2019t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next. Join senior AI reporter James O&#8217;Donnell as he interviews King about his work, being named one of MIT Technology Review&#8217;s Innovators Under 35 and new ways of seeing biology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Going live\u00a0on October 16th at\u00a018:30 BST \/ 1:30pm EDT \/ 10:30am PDT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong>Speakers<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><em><strong><strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/em> James O&#8217;Donnell<\/strong>, AI Reporter, and <strong>Samuel King<\/strong>, Bioengineering PhD Candidate, Stanford University\/Arc Institute<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#Roundtables #Conversation #Creator #AIDesigned #Viruses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14521,6536,8236,928,12724],"class_list":["post-23684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-aidesigned","tag-conversation","tag-creator","tag-roundtables","tag-viruses"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MIT-TR-Roundtables_Oct-2-Thumbnail.png",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MIT-TR-Roundtables_Oct-2-Thumbnail-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MIT-TR-Roundtables_Oct-2-Thumbnail-300x150.png",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MIT-TR-Roundtables_Oct-2-Thumbnail-768x384.png",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MIT-TR-Roundtables_Oct-2-Thumbnail-1024x512.png",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MIT-TR-Roundtables_Oct-2-Thumbnail.png",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MIT-TR-Roundtables_Oct-2-Thumbnail.png",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MIT-TR-Roundtables_Oct-2-Thumbnail-1024x512.png",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MIT-TR-Roundtables_Oct-2-Thumbnail-540x340.png",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news678.top\/?cat=7\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}