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.
Congratulations to David and Ben.