Radical Numerics claims AI-engineered virus treated a patient

Startup Radical Numerics published a technical paper describing an AI-designed bacteriophage used to treat a bacterial infection in a human. The work was self-published and not peer reviewed, and the company declined to share clinical details about the patient or doctors.

• Company posted a technical paper, not a peer-reviewed study
• Clinical details on patient and doctors withheld
• Approach builds on phage therapy with AI-guided virus design
• Harvard microbiologist Michael Baym said he is skeptical