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A UK government report reveals that one in three adults use AI for emotional support, with significant concerns about AI's rapid capabilities in cybersecurity and science, potential for loss of control, and vulnerabilities to bypass safeguards, highlighting societal and security implications.
Researchers from universities in New York and Ningbo, China, have developed 3D DNA nanorobots that can self-replicate. These tiny robots, built from DNA, have the potential to perform tasks such as targeting and destroying cancer cells or collecting toxic waste in the ocean. The nanorobots are capable of precise folding and positioning of DNA strands, allowing for limitless self-replication. This breakthrough in DNA nanotechnology opens the door to more complex and useful nano- and microdevices, with applications in nanomedicine, diagnostics, and nanorobotics.
Researchers at the University of Vermont have been designing and creating 'xenobots': miniature machines made from living frog cells. The xenobots can be made from normal cells taken from frog embryos and can perform predictable, robot-like behaviours, such as herding particles around a Petri dish, cooperating like sheepdogs and even birthing balls of other cells that might be regarded as xenobot babies. The researchers use an AI program to evolve bunches of frog cells to perform whatever task it is they are interested in. The xenobots are capable of self-replication, which opens up a whole suite of potential applications, such as environmental clean-up or technologies that could put out forest fires.