News Summary

• Proteins designed by artificial intelligence could soon carry a hidden signature of their machine-generated origins.
• The technology, developed by researchers at Google DeepMind in London, borrows a trick that is already used to identify AI-made content across images, video, audio and text.
• Known as SynthIDBio, the approach could distinguish AI-generated proteins in biological repositories from their natural counterparts.
• It could preserve the integrity of databases that underpin both scientific research and biosecurity screening.