Artificial intelligence can be used to create new bacteriophages (viruses that target bacteria) to combat antibiotic resistance.

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The use of AI to design proteins or viral genomic sequences is an active and documented field of research. Studies published in journals such as 'Nature Biotechnology' (type: experimental research/proof-of-concept) effectively show that AI models can generate functional sequences, including those for phages. Phage therapy, which consists of using these viruses to eliminate pathogenic bacteria, is a serious scientific avenue being explored to address the growing ineffectiveness of conventional antibiotics. The assertion that these specific viruses do not target humans is consistent with the biology of bacteriophages. However, the potential for misuse of these technologies to create human pathogens is a subject of legitimate ethical and security debate within the scientific community, although it remains largely theoretical at this stage. The advice is therefore factually grounded in real and promising technological advances.

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