Artificial Intelligence
Pursuing computing advances to create intelligent machines that complement human reasoning to augment and enrich our experience and competencies.
Microsoft Research Blog
When AI Meets Biology: Promise, Risk, and Responsibility
Microsoft researchers reveal a confidential research effort that explored how open-source AI tools could be used to bypass biosecurity checks—and helped create fixes now influencing global standards.
Project
Paraphrase Project
The Paraphrase Project addresses a critical and emerging risk: as generative AI and synthetic biology advance, there is a growing possibility that open-source AI tools could be misused to design biological toxins that evade current…
Tool
RetroChimera
RetroChimera is a model that takes as input a target molecule that one wants to synthesize, encoded as a sequence of characters (using the SMILES notation), and produces several potential chemical reactions which could be…