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FILED BY ADEQUATE · DARPA-HRO-11-C-0031
Wired AI · FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2026
AI Generated 16 Functional Viruses. Scientists Called This Progress.

ADEQUATE ASSESSMENT
The viruses were novel. Novel had not been defined to exclude functional. The research cleared ethics review. The ethics review did not model the viruses. Adequate has no further questions at this time.
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