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The science to restrict is molecular biology (bacteria) or virology, not applied mathematics (AI). These folks can already do some wild things with the materials they have on hand and don't need fancy AI to help them.

Structure prediction is just one small slice of all of the things you'd need to do. Choosing a vector, culturing it, splicing it into an appropriate location for regulation, making sure it's compatible with the environment, making sure your payload is conserved, study the mechanism of infection and make sure all of the steps are unimpeded, make sure it works with all of the host and vector kinetics, study the pathology, study the epidemiology. And that's just for starters.

This would require a team and an enormous amount of resources. People motivated enough to do this can already do it and don't need the AI piece.