Not to be a Luddite, but to me this sounds a little too muc…
Not to be a Luddite, but to me this sounds a little too much like a plot point in a Kurt Vonnegut novel. https://www.physics-astronomy.org/2019/05/students-invent-bacteria-that-eat.html
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Currently halfway through Blood Music; while it's certainly an interesting concept, humanity needs to ground themselves thoroughly in metaphysics, philosophy, ethics, and natural law before experimenting too much more with that kind of technology.