🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)

Clement Delangue · Latent Space Blog · Sep 23, 2026 · Research Findings

AI genomic language models like Evo 2 can now generate functional virus genomes, making bio-security an AI arms race.

“cyber-warfare defensive capabilities need to be open and to keep pace with frontier models' attack capabilities”— Clement Delangue

Radical Numerics co-founder Eric Nguyen explains how long-context genomic language models (Evo, Evo 2) can build genomes from scratch, and an Arc/Stanford team used them to generate functional bacteriophage viruses. This dual-use capability frames bio-security as an AI arms race where open defensive models must keep pace with frontier attack capabilities.

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