Being able to identify many such compounds very quickly implies some new threat models that are a bit disturbing.
Of the 40000 substances identified, perhaps one of them has another interesting characteristic we've never seen in a toxic compound before? Perhaps such characteristics could be idenfified and filtered for, and perhaps someone could pin down something entirely unique and outside of any threat-assessment anyone's produced.
>and not surprising at all it's obvious in retrospect, but they claim that the threat vector had not been seriously concidered before, and I see no reason to doubt their assessment. Many things aren't surprising once they've been pointed out, but were missed for far too long beforehand, and I personally had never concidered this before, despite seeing multiple articles about AI-generated substances for positive purposes.