>A drug-developing Artificial Intelligence needed just six hours to come up with 40,000 potentially deadly chemical weapons >The authors of the paper . . . carried out the ‘thought experiment’ to figure out if artificial intelligence (AI) could be misused by evil actors. >It came up not just with the VX compound, which is one of the most dangerous nerve agents ever created, but also with some unknown molecules, “predicted to be more toxic.” >The dataset they used on the AI could be downloaded for free and they worry that all it takes is some coding knowledge to turn a good AI into a chemical weapon-making machine,” [AI invents 40,000 chemical weapons in only six hours](https://web.archive.org/web/20220327130233/https://www.rt.com/news/552294-ai-chemical-weapons-toxic/) (rt.com) (archived) [Killer AI invented 40,000 ‘lethal chemical weapons’ in just six hours](https://web.archive.org/web/20220322051639/https://nypost.com/2022/03/18/killer-ai-invented-40000-lethal-chemical-weapons-in-just-six-hours/) (nypost.com) (archived)