How Should Regular People View AI-Designed Viruses?

When I scrolled past this news on Monday morning, I was staring at a power simulation bench until my eyes crossed. A Stanford team used generative AI to design viruses that don't exist in nature and actually cultured them in the lab. Half of my WeChat Moments feed was excited, the other half panicked, but honestly, most people started freaking out without even knowing what a "phage" is.