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THE BRIEFING
Only a month ago, Jennifer Doudna said scientific innovation was still “really in the domain of human beings” and that she was “not seeing chatbots coming up with a brand-new idea.”
Now her lab has used AI to redesign a CRISPR-like enzyme - and brought receipts. That casts Doudna as an honest critic willing to use it where it is strong and let experiments do the talking.
A penny, then, for Doudna’s thoughts on Lila Sciences, which is now talking about “local spikes” of “scientific superintelligence”. Unlike Doudna’s paper, those claims currently arrive without public technical evidence.
In this issue we also have Google’s AI biosecurity stack, scVision reading gene activity as images, and the patent dilemma that emerges when an AI may have done too much of the inventing.
Let’s dive in.
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