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Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins

Ars Technica
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Artificial intelligenceScienceBiologyDeepmindProtein Design

The software we use to identify DNA sequences that encode potentially threatening proteins doesn’t pick out AI-designed proteins. One way to think about this is that, when the system comes across a location where a set of chemically related amino acids will all work, it will use one that’s consistent with the watermark when possible.

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