Drug discovery and delivery technology misused for chemical warfare - The Sunday Guardian Live

AI, ML and 3D printing technologies can discover and predict suitability of a chemical for use as a weapon, produce it on a relevant scale, optimally weaponize it and safely stockpile it. Pharmaceutical aerosol technologies with agriculture spraying drones for delivery of airborne chemical and biological warfare agents will have devastating results. In this study they used their commercial de novo molecule generator, "MegaSyn", with an altered approach to select rather than discard toxic molecules, especially those like nerve agent VX and Novichok. In less than 6 hours it generated 40,000 known and unknown nerve agent molecules like VX that met the desired threshold of nerve toxicity. It is easier to discover highly toxic chemicals than to find an effective and safe therapeutic drug and then optimize its production and delivery.