New Artificial Intelligence System Could End Animal Testing Forever

A new computer system could spell the end for animal testing. The new system offers up more accurate results than animal testing, predicting the toxicity of a substance almost immediately. It is also less expensive, less time-consuming, and poses much less of an ethical dilemma. "These results are a real eye-opener, they suggest that we can replace many animal tests with computer-based prediction and get more reliable results," Professor Thomas Hartung, the lead designer of the system, told the Financial Times. Hartung and his team of researchers used artificial intelligence to analyze the results of 800,000 tests on 10,000 different chemicals, held on a database.