In 2022, scientists made an unexpected and chilling discovery: MegaSyn, an AI a suite of automated tools designed to accelerate drug discovery, could be used to design deadly, chemical weapons. A tool crafted to save lives now held the potential to extinguish them with unparaelled efficiency. With just a few keystrokes, synthetic toxins more lethal than anything known to humanity could be generated—not in secret military labs, but on ordinary, civilian computers.
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