Eric Horvitz

For now.

When we return, I'll be joined by Dr. Eric Horvitz of Microsoft to talk about what people are doing to prevent bioterrorism as a result of our AI innovations.

That's coming up right after this.

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This episode, we have been talking all about the potential issues that could arise from using AI to design proteins that could design bioweapons.

So here to continue that conversation and specifically talk about what is happening to prevent those scenarios, I'm joined by...

I'm Eric Horvitz.

I'm Microsoft's chief scientific officer.

There's a really wonderful study that I think was published in Nature this summer.

Eric Horvitz, the chief scientist at Microsoft, was describing it at a dinner.

And he said, They did a study, his team did a study where they gave a complicated diagnostic hypothetical.

They let the physicians look at it and they got it right on first pass.