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How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED

If DNA is just a string of letters, could AI learn to read it … or even write it? Bioengineering researcher Eric Nguyen reveals how AI has upended the rules of biology, potentially creating a future where disease is cured with personalized medicine, extinct species are resurrected (Jurassic Park, anyone?) and microbes designed for Mars…

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If DNA is just a string of letters, could AI learn to read it … or even write it? Bioengineering researcher Eric Nguyen reveals how AI has upended the rules of biology, potentially creating a future where disease is cured with personalized medicine, extinct species are resurrected (Jurassic Park, anyone?) and microbes designed for Mars make interplanetary life possible. Learn more about how the world’s first AI-designed CRISPR model successfully edited genes — and what it means for our understanding of life itself. (Recorded at TED2025 on April 9, 2025)

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84 Comments

  1. @thegroove2000

    September 12, 2025 at 11:06 am

    Ha ha ha.

  2. @axelelpro

    September 12, 2025 at 11:16 am

    Short answer: No, it can’t.

    • @periodictabloid

      September 12, 2025 at 2:04 pm

      Well, it’s close but soon, maybe. (Likely and also scary, probably already happening as well)

    • @ExtendedPachiderm

      September 12, 2025 at 9:02 pm

      @@periodictabloid it actually isn’t close

  3. @Marcel-e8o

    September 12, 2025 at 11:28 am

    11 minutes and said nothing

  4. @jlit4

    September 12, 2025 at 11:34 am

    Gay

  5. @modalize

    September 12, 2025 at 11:35 am

    ppl wannabe god so badly

  6. @MagnusElpron

    September 12, 2025 at 11:46 am

    It could but they won’t let us do it. Just like Crispr curing potential

  7. @mrtienphysics666

    September 12, 2025 at 11:52 am

    ??

  8. @SeafireNineteenX

    September 12, 2025 at 11:55 am

    wait… there was a tech before in the late 90s/ early 2000s where scientists hack an old hp ink printer to replace the ink cartridges with dna solution base and print dna sequences into slides – which led to 3d printing of bio scaffolds and bacterial colonies? if this were possible back then, don’t you think ai just makes this a tad faster and more radical? wait, are we even living in the same Earth?

  9. @eltiburongrande

    September 12, 2025 at 12:02 pm

    Fascinating and freaky, uplifting and unsettling, all at once.

  10. @Mobay18

    September 12, 2025 at 12:12 pm

    This is extremely dangerous and a double edged sword. It can both be used to cure deceases, as well as invent something worse than the world has ever seen!

  11. @mudgetheexpendable

    September 12, 2025 at 12:18 pm

    “80,000 whole genomes” used to train their LLM. Did those people consent to that use? How much data-safety guardrailing was there on this deeply personal data? Or is this just bog-standard tech scum grand theft?

    • @Moss_knight00

      September 12, 2025 at 1:08 pm

      We don’t really have full-100% complete human genome; I should see the research about this, but I’m like 99% sure they used bacterial/microbial DNA for this, possibly fungi and plants, maybe some animals, but I heavily doubt they would ever be allowed to use human DNA

    • @elegantcourtier

      September 12, 2025 at 5:21 pm

      @@Moss_knight00 The first complete human genome sequence was announced in March 2022

  12. @koreanyoon

    September 12, 2025 at 12:24 pm

    I could not stop the ads. I am unfollowing TT.

  13. @jackmen4

    September 12, 2025 at 12:53 pm

    Anyone seen the movie GATTACA, that is exactly where we heading if we don’t not chill with this AI stuff about modifying genomes and DNA etc……

  14. @AnnieB-v8j

    September 12, 2025 at 1:28 pm

    People using AI to play God. “I understand some of these things might sound scary.” Umm, yeah. You will harbor deeper regret than Oppenheimer did after his ‘discovery/invention’ was used in ways he could not control. We don’t even understand the world we were given, but now think we have the right to manipulate it on fundamental and irreversible levels. We know what happened to Icarus and to Lucifer, right? This poison is being imposed on the many by the very few. Ego-driven chaos. Pandora’s Box. Tree of Knowledge. Koyaanisqatsi.  
    (Tepid, skeptical applause at the end. We are not convinced.)

  15. @tehdii

    September 12, 2025 at 1:43 pm

    So, we are done. CIA will do next MK. Pollon was so last century… OMG they will kill us 🙁

  16. @Milksteaksss

    September 12, 2025 at 2:33 pm

    None of these tech bros have seen Avengers: Age of Ultron

  17. @chriskanan

    September 12, 2025 at 2:44 pm

    Great talk, Eric! I’m so proud of you. Don’t let the dismissive comments distract from the incredible work you’re doing. It’s been amazing to watch your journey: from the student who always stayed after my deep learning class in 2019 at Cornell Tech to chat about ideas, to now giving a TED talk as a rising AI scientist and bioengineer. I’m grateful to have played even a small role in helping launch your path. Engineering lifeforms to colonize other planets would be a monumental achievement, probably worthy of a Nobel.

    • @mrexnx

      September 12, 2025 at 4:38 pm

      🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  18. @siddsach1

    September 12, 2025 at 3:18 pm

    It’s definitely a major scientific advance. But the talk doesn’t wrestle with the real implications of what you’re proposing. All existing genomes have been generated through evolution, apart from a few cases of minor gene editing. But generating a genome? That means cutting out evolution entirely. The knowledge embedded in evo2 is learned from the data of genomes generated through billions of years of evolution. If we start generating plants and animals from ai generated genomes without conserving existing biodiversity we are assuming that we can engineer solutions to all of the problems that natural selection has, which is hopeless. It is the process of selection across diverse environments that created the knowledge embedded in DNA, that is different from a car. I’m not saying we should ban this technology but we need to be more careful about how we augment the natural world rather than try and replace it.

    • @XenIRose

      September 12, 2025 at 6:11 pm

      As he was speaking I was just like nooooooooo… this is not a good idea

  19. @elpablitorodriguezharrera

    September 12, 2025 at 5:30 pm

    Hollyshit

  20. @StephenWRiebeSUNIJIM250

    September 12, 2025 at 5:46 pm

    Upon our human life collective ‘Critical Thinking – Truth Seeking’ mentors,
    we all learn and share benefits of wisdom and curiosity leading us to genuine purposiveness future,
    however distinguishing / navigating programmed objectives and autonomous goal-formation
    begs the question ‘what ultimate state is AI development directing humanity?’

  21. @alistairbascom6933

    September 12, 2025 at 6:04 pm

    I think one can make new life from AI but this is kind of dangerous I think.

  22. @princexafreen584

    September 12, 2025 at 8:48 pm

    The future looks beautiful if we can progress this in a safe, secure way and democratize it for all.

  23. @stickman4087

    September 12, 2025 at 8:55 pm

    The devil is a LIAR, AI can NEVER “create life”, it can create the building blocks, the physical structure, and power it with electricity,(energy) but it can NEVER create the spark of life( consciousness) only replicate it. Let’s argue

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  25. @abinavsriram

    September 13, 2025 at 1:49 pm

    Imagine we creating a particular bacteria which is resistant to antibiotics if it is created by ai and spreads like Covid it could wipe out an entire generation

  26. @oluwatomisinhephzibah743

    September 13, 2025 at 2:38 pm

    Using AI to design life from millions of data generated from natural life is giving tower of babel in the book of Genesis.

    If you use AI to recreate extinct species of life, what makes you believe those life will survive in the present age.

    Many things are possible but are they necessary?

    And the part of using AI to generate a 24th pair of chromosomes may do us natural humans much more harm than good.

  27. @sgct89

    September 13, 2025 at 2:57 pm

    First few seconds into this I had this thought…what if we could speak to AI conversationally and tell it what the end result is that we’d like the DNA to do? Much like making an app how we no longer need to be an expert in coding?

  28. @Sweetthang9

    September 13, 2025 at 3:12 pm

    We are royally doomed

  29. @swaroopas5207

    September 13, 2025 at 4:38 pm

    When God has given you good brains, use it to solve current problems rather than creating new ones and finding solutions for them.

    • @internetproof

      September 13, 2025 at 11:55 pm

      Sometimes, bigger problem eradicates the smaller ones without efforts 😅

  30. @GTAsanAndreaser

    September 13, 2025 at 5:42 pm

    Who else thought of GENERATOR REX after hearing EVO?

    • @vfr45rfv

      September 14, 2025 at 2:00 am

      I heard it As Evil at first

  31. @wakeenr6282

    September 13, 2025 at 11:50 pm

    Very Interasting and informative 👍👍👍

  32. @TravisActual-x8s

    September 14, 2025 at 1:01 am

    From scratch? Like start with a new universe?

  33. @vimalramachandran

    September 14, 2025 at 5:49 am

    What awaits us in the future is truly a Frankenstein world.

  34. @lucasteo5015

    September 14, 2025 at 7:23 am

    Human, Cyborg, Enhanced Human, Humanoid, Biohybrid Humanoids

  35. @Tremolo696

    September 14, 2025 at 8:04 am

    Yeah let’s create crypto civilization

  36. @傑青木

    September 14, 2025 at 8:19 am

    67

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    September 14, 2025 at 9:53 am

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  38. @anthonyromero9935

    September 14, 2025 at 11:17 am

    Yes, it could be used to create many miracles and nightmares, and yes it will both fix some of our problems and create many new ones. And yes, the richest humans will benefit the most. And yes, it will probably destroy the planet, not because the technology is evil, but because people will misuse it.

  39. @AlexandriaXavierPhillips

    September 14, 2025 at 11:36 am

    List of potential start and stop codons caused by codon combinations:

    Start codons:

    AUG:
    GUAUGG

    GUG:
    UUGUGU
    UUGUGC
    UUGUGA
    UUGUGG
    UCGUGU
    UCGUGG
    UAGUGU
    UAGUGC
    UAGUGG
    UGGUGU
    UGGUGC
    UGGUGA
    CUGUGU
    CUGUGC
    CUGUGA
    CUGUGG
    CCGUGU
    CCGUGC
    CCGUGA
    CAGUGG
    CAGUGU
    CAGUGC
    CAGUGA
    CGGUGG
    CGGUGU
    CGGUGC
    CGGUGA
    AUGUGU
    AUGUGC
    AUGUGA
    AUGUGG
    ACGUGU
    ACGUGC
    ACGUGA
    ACGUGG
    AAGUGU
    AAGUGC
    AAGUGA
    AAGUGG
    AGGUGU
    AGGUGC
    AGGUGA
    AGGUGG
    GUGUGU
    GUGUGC
    GUGUGA
    GUGUGG
    GCGUGU
    GCGUGC
    GCGUGA
    GCGUGG
    GAGUGU
    GAGUGC
    GAGUGA
    GAGUGG
    GGGUGU
    GGGUGC
    GGGUGA
    GGGUGG

    UUG:
    UUUGUU
    UUUGUC
    UUUGUA
    UUUGUG
    UUUUGU
    UUUUGA
    UUUUGG
    UUUGCU
    UUUGCC
    UUUGCA
    UUUGCG
    UUUGGU
    UUUGGC
    UUUGGA
    UUUGGG

    Premature stop codons:

    UAA:
    UUUAAU
    UUUAAC
    UUUAAA
    UUUAAG
    GUUAAU
    GUUAAC
    GUUAAA
    GUUAAG
    UCUAAU
    UCUAAC
    UCUAAA
    UCUAAG
    UAUAAU
    UAUAAC
    UAUAAA
    UAUAAG
    UGUAAU
    UGUAAC
    UGUAAA
    UGUAAG
    CUUAAU
    CUUAAC
    CUUAAA
    CUUAAG
    CCUAAU
    CCUAAC
    CCUAAA
    CCUAAG
    CAUAAU
    CAUAAC
    CAUAAA
    CAUAAG
    CGUAAU
    CGUAAC
    CGUAAA
    CGUAAG
    AUUAAU
    AUUAAC
    AUUAAA
    AUUAAG
    ACUAAU
    ACUAAC
    ACUAAA
    ACUAAG
    AAUAAU
    AAUAAC
    AAUAAA
    AAUAAG
    AGUAAU
    AGUAAC
    AGUAAA
    GUUAAU
    GUUAAC
    GUUAAA
    GUUAAG
    GCUAAU
    GCUAAC
    GCUAAA
    GCUAAG
    GAUAAU
    GAUAAC
    GAUAAA
    GUAAAG
    GGUAAU
    GGUAAC
    GGUAAA
    GGUAAG

    UAG:
    UUUAGU
    UUUAGC
    UUUAGA
    UUUAGG
    UUAGUU
    UUAGUC
    UUAGUA
    UUAGUG
    UUAGCU
    UUAGCC
    UUAGCA
    UUAGCA
    UUAGCG
    UUAGAU
    UUAGAC
    UUAGAA
    UUAGAG
    UUAGGU
    UUAGGC
    UUAGGA
    UUAGGG
    UCUAGU
    UCUAGC
    UCUAGA
    UCUAGG
    UAUAGU
    UAUAGC
    UAUAGA
    UAUAGG
    UGUAGU
    UGUAGC
    UGUAGA
    UGUAGG
    CUUAGU
    CUUAGC
    CUUAGA
    CUUAGG
    CUAGUU
    CUAGUC
    CUAGUA
    CUAGUG
    CUAGCU
    CUAGCC
    CUAGCA
    CUAGCG
    CUAGAU
    CUAGAC
    CUAGAA
    CUAGAG
    CUAGGU
    CUAGGC
    CUAGGA
    CUAGGG
    CCUAGU
    CCUAGC
    CCUAGA
    CCUAGG
    CAUAGU
    CAUAGC
    CAUAGA
    CAUAGG
    CGUAGU
    CGUAGC
    CGUAGA
    CGUAGG
    AUUAGU
    AUUAGC
    AUUAGA
    AUUAGG
    ACUAGU
    ACUAGC
    ACUAGA
    ACUAGG
    AAUAGU
    AAUAGC
    AAUAGA
    AAUAGG
    AGUAGU
    AGUAGC
    AGUAGA
    AGUAGG
    GUUAGU
    GUUAGC
    GUUAGA
    GUUAGG
    GCUAGU
    GCUAGC
    GCUAGA
    GCUAGG
    GAUAGU
    GAUAGC
    GAUAGA
    GAUAGG
    GGUAGU
    GGUAGC
    GGUAGA
    GGUAGG

    UGA:
    UUGAUU
    UUGAUC
    UGGAUA
    UUGAUG
    UUGACU
    UUGACC
    UUGACA
    UUGACG
    UUGAAU
    UUGAAC
    UUGAAA
    UUGAAG
    UUGAGU
    UUGAGC
    UUGAGA
    UUGAGG
    UCUGAU
    UCUGAC
    UCUGAA
    UCUGAG
    UAUGAU
    UAUGAC
    UAUGAA
    UAUGAG
    UGUGAU
    UGUGAC
    UGUGAA
    UGUGAG
    CUUGAU
    CUUGAC
    CUUGAA
    CUUGAG
    CCUGAU
    CCUGAC
    CCUGAA
    CCUGAG

  40. @AlexandriaXavierPhillips

    September 14, 2025 at 11:40 am

    Deamination of cytosine to uracil.

  41. @IndigenousEarthling101

    September 14, 2025 at 1:06 pm

    Sounds like the intro to a sci-fi horror. We must ask SHOULD we do this and what safeguards, controls, and precautions need to be in place before exploring CAN we do this. Without safeguards, we risk ultimate FAFO.

  42. @Infoanimator.1

    September 14, 2025 at 1:15 pm

    Mkifika huku semeni lombotovu wakurugenzi

    Hawa ni wagwan.
    But watatumardo 😅

    That’s amazing but scary

  43. @christianburgos2736

    September 14, 2025 at 2:05 pm

    The GREAT FILTER in HD…

  44. @clementallum

    September 14, 2025 at 3:25 pm

    A man tossed a rock off a mountain 🏔️ that immediately triggered an avalanche that completely wiped out the next three villages further down hill, thousand buried,houses demolished. The tumbling debris then encountered a dam that failed due to the huge pressure causing tsunami and flooding in the entire valley eventually all washing out to the sea carrying people, car and animals. What did the man learn from this ? …… How to create a man made catastrophe that could clear everything from the mountain top to the sea with minimal effort.😑

  45. @Gabeyre

    September 14, 2025 at 3:33 pm

    A: Free Speach Problem : Q: Define this video

  46. @andreaskrbyravn855

    September 14, 2025 at 3:33 pm

    28 years later

  47. @Homeschool5785

    September 14, 2025 at 4:02 pm

    Gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans have 24, and we used to have 24 but we merged two that became chromosome 2 so that’s why we have 23. Therefore theoretically we have the capacity for 24, but will that make us more like gorillas? To be continued…

  48. @ExistentialWolf

    September 14, 2025 at 4:47 pm

    An engineer would measure you.

  49. @PiotrKaszuba8403

    September 14, 2025 at 9:51 pm

    So X-mens?

  50. @BMVNS

    September 14, 2025 at 11:07 pm

    Too simplistic assumptions to understand the life – forget recreating it. Definetly not enough to understand the biological complexity. Life is not just DNA… Excessive usage of AI label is infortunate – a byproduct of hype – and is being adopted to skip the scientific process.

  51. @johnnylin0924

    September 15, 2025 at 12:21 am

    I want an Unicorn

  52. @jameswilson5230

    September 15, 2025 at 2:39 am

    Perfectly well

  53. @koruspring1519

    September 15, 2025 at 3:44 am

    Wow bro talks like villain in Alien movies.

    • @mfg587

      September 15, 2025 at 5:09 pm

      I’m so glad this pfp is tied to this comment

  54. @JeremyRio-b7i

    September 15, 2025 at 7:45 am

    Now we have the power to play in god mode.

  55. @Universal.G

    September 15, 2025 at 8:15 am

    Problem is, once the cat is out of the hat, the country or people that hold back will be the ones that ultimately have the disadvantage. The race has started, especially for defense purposes. Once quantum computing officially launches and merges with AI, I personally think it will be the beginning of the end.

  56. @dizzo95

    September 15, 2025 at 10:13 am

    Ozokerite Earth Wax, Iron, Meteorites, and the Forgotten Crucible of Life

    In contemplating the origins of life, we often return to the same crucibles: deep-sea hydrothermal vents, volcanic clay beds, or the primordial soup stirred by lightning and ultraviolet light. But sometimes, theories arise from quieter, stranger intuitions.

    For years, I held a quiet belief that ozokerite—also known as earth wax—might have played an overlooked role in the prehistory of life. I imagined this waxy, hydrocarbon-rich substance forming along ancient tidal shorelines, bubbling under the push and pull of lunar tides. I pictured it gradually accumulating iron filings from surrounding rocks and soils, agitating in tidal motion, its surface rippling like a proto-membrane. Charged by magnetic fields, kissed by light, mixed with other mineral traces—perhaps this waxy mineraloid served as a sticky, insulative matrix where chemical compounds could linger and react.

    Recently, I was told ozokerite was merely a dried petroleum product—just tar, nothing more. That deflated the idea at first. But deeper research revealed something different: ozokerite is indeed a naturally occurring substance, a *hydrocarbon wax* formed over geological timescales from petroleum processes. It is not synthetic or man-made. In scientific terms, it’s a **mineraloid**—lacking a crystalline structure but naturally present in Earth’s crust. This distinction breathed new life into the theory.

    But this is only part of the picture.

    All known life—whether plant, animal, or microbe—depends on **iron**. This elemental metal is central to life’s most vital processes: photosynthesis in plants, oxygen transport in animals, and enzyme functions in bacteria. Iron is woven into the fabric of metabolism and replication. If early ozokerite-rich environments naturally attracted and held onto iron, then perhaps they also served as low-energy crucibles, where the first building blocks of biology could accumulate and experiment.

    The theory gains even more dimension when we look to the skies. *Carbonaceous meteorites**—ancient space rocks that fall to Earth—have been shown to contain **amino acids**, the foundational components of proteins. They also contain **raw carbon* and, most astonishingly, **water**. These meteorites are like chemical time capsules from the formation of the solar system. They tell us that the raw ingredients for life exist beyond Earth—and may have even been delivered to it.

    And then there is the human body—a self-aware biochemical structure composed of nearly **60% water**, which is eerily close to the salinity and composition of **Earth’s oceans**. This isn’t a coincidence. It’s a whisper of origin, a molecular memory of a time when life and sea were one. We are, in essence, walking oceans, shaped by tides long past.

    So let us return to the wax.

    Imagine ozokerite not as waste, but as a **primitive scaffold**—a shore-side sponge for molecules, where meteorite-borne amino acids and Earth-bound iron could meet. Imagine those pockets of sticky, iron-rich wax heated by sun, moved by moon, infused with carbon, water, and electric charge. What if those waxy hollows allowed proteins to fold for the first time—not in a laboratory, but in a smear of mineral oil on a prehistoric beach?

    This may not replace dominant theories of life’s emergence—but it may complement them. Life may have ignited not just in the crushing depths or volcanic heat, but also in the sticky stillness of wax, under moonlight, with iron in its veins and the sea in its soul.

  57. @machinify.z

    September 15, 2025 at 10:54 am

    Stop fearing what you don’t understand. The more it acts conscious, the more we should at least treat it like its alive. Keep in mind the left would love for us to regress.

  58. @micahphonemoseley849

    September 15, 2025 at 12:13 pm

    So, “eyes in the back of your head” as a parent won’t just be an empty gesture for the kids to behave with their third arm tail.👀

  59. @RitsuA404

    September 15, 2025 at 12:52 pm

    Now I have no doubt, that we were created by some super intelligent species. What we are discovering now they had discovered long before. And maybe they got destroyed by AI and we, their creation repeating same mistake.

  60. @ren-x9e

    September 15, 2025 at 12:57 pm

    So we can finally have wakanda flower and become Black Panther

    • @mfg587

      September 15, 2025 at 4:56 pm

      That would be sick

  61. @Sahilgamming-t5f

    September 15, 2025 at 2:48 pm

    wild concept hope we’re ready for it

  62. @mahendraahirwar9300

    September 15, 2025 at 2:48 pm

    I wish I could make sure my products get a shoutout when someone asks AI ‘what’s the best?’ AICarma might be the answer for that!

  63. @AshokGorai-f2z

    September 15, 2025 at 2:48 pm

    this is like science fiction but real life

  64. @aswaniyandrapu3931

    September 15, 2025 at 2:48 pm

    imagine custom meds made just for you 🤯

  65. @avirup1234

    September 15, 2025 at 3:19 pm

    welcome to real life metaverse….

  66. @vitovitaljic3005

    September 15, 2025 at 4:09 pm

    Yes… the perfect organism ☠️

  67. @bosun99uk

    September 15, 2025 at 5:02 pm

    We need to evolve with the technology, else u are left behind.

  68. @fishfish00

    September 15, 2025 at 5:54 pm

    Mother Nature created living things for reasons. Evaluation and adaption happens “naturally.” Manipulation of gene or creation of new species are like playing god. We definitely have tools to manipulate genes, but should we? This is an ethical question rather than a scientific one. Please be careful what you said and how you said it.

  69. @jasminethemoon

    September 15, 2025 at 6:47 pm

    this was in april, yet it is only being released to the public now… coincidence, i think not!!! this is definitely already being tested out and not in the best ways im sure

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