New technology to create synthetic viruses that do not exist in nature with artificial intelligence is scaring biosafety experts, who worry that the process could spark the next global pandemic. Manipulating the genetic structure of naturally occurring viruses is not new, but using AI to create entirely new viruses poses new safety concerns and puts scientists and policymakers in uncharted territory. Scientists at Stanford University published a new paper on Thursday in the journal Science in which they effectively taught AI to recognize DNA patterns and, from there, effectively grow viruses never before seen in nature. The viruses were then able to…