‘Black Box’ Biotechnology – integration of artificial intelligence with synthetic biology: addressing the risks, hype, and inequities underpinning generative biology, is a briefing by the African Centre of Biodiversity (ACB), in collaboration with Third World Network (TWN) and ETC Group. Ahead of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP 16 in Colombia, starting on 21 October, this is a timely warning of the overhype and dangers regarding ‘generative’ artificial intelligence tools, better known for text chatbots such as ChatGPT, which are now being applied to generate novel digital sequences for GMOs and proteins. Click here to read the briefing on ACB's website: https://t2m.io/BlackBoxBiotech_post