I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus

An economist's article warning about AI-designed superviruses lacks credibility, according to a computational biologist who argues the scenario is far-fetched given the enormous complexity of designing functional biological systems. The author, who works professionally on AI tools for biological design, points out that even PhD students with state-of-the-art AI struggle for months to design simple peptides, making the idea that an untrained teenager could design a lethal pandemic virus vastly unrealistic.