Generative Biology - Arc Institute’s new AI can read and write the code of life

It’s 2040. You’re at your doctor’s office, going over the results of your genome analysis. An advanced AI has identified patterns in your DNA code that suggest you’re at high risk of developing a certain disease in the future. Thankfully, the same AI can be used to design a treatment. Biology—the study of living things—has been going on since prehistoric times when our ancestors first determined through trial and error which plants were food and which were poison. Over the next tens of millennia, scientists would develop increasingly advanced new tools to help them in their quest to understand the living world, eventually leading to the breakthrough discovery that everything we could want to know about an organism is written in its DNA. Now, an artificial intelligence (AI) called Evo 2 is entering the biology lab, and the introduction of this tool could signal the start of a new era in biology, one in which scientists aren’t just trying to decipher the code of life, but rewriting it from the ground up.