David & Ben’s research featured in “New Scientist”.

At Innovista, we follow the 20% / 80% rule, where 20% of productive time can be used for creative projects. In this context, David Zollikofer and Ben Zimmerman authored the paper on “Synthetic Cancer – Augmenting Worms with LLMs” which earned them the Pour Demain Swiss AI Safety Award 2024.
Renowned journalist Chris Stokel-Walker recently featured this work in “New Scientist,” where he also interviewed David for his insights.
The article, including quotes from David’s interview, was published on July 3rd. “Computer viruses can spread by using ChatGPT to write sneaky emails”.

Congrats David and Ben 🎉 Computer viruses can spread by using ChatGPT to write sneaky emails newscientist.com