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Re:AI-engineered enzyme eats entire plastic containers by newlikeice on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @07:33PM (#31347377)
Brainstorming. With all the talk about micro plastics, what happens if this type of enzyme is digested?

Does the type of process in the reaction and it’s byproducts do damage to us? Is AI actually out to get us lol

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Re:AI-engineered enzyme eats entire plastic containers by riidom on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @08:12PM (#31347653)
Works at 50°C - now I was about to write the AI made a mistake and wanted it to work at 50°F instead, but then this is also no healthy body temperature :)
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Re:AI-engineered enzyme eats entire plastic containers by xbmcuser on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @10:50PM (#31348740)
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/05/record-breaking-heatw...

Part of the world has already started hitting 50°C because of global warming. I guess world getting warmer would means higher chances of such bacteria evolving naturally. India and Pakistan have high population cities with huge waste dumps/land fills so this enzyme or similar evolving naturally is a possibility.

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