AI Algorithm , Locates Previously Undetected , 'Hazardous' Asteroid.br 'Dazed' reports that artificial intelligence br has helped spot a "potentially hazardous br asteroid" (PHA) for the first time. .br The PHA was reportedly spotted br by a star-gazing algorithm after br having slipped past human scientists. .br According to algorithm HelioLinc3D, the asteroidbr is approximately 600 feet long and on a course br that will bring it within 140,000 miles of our planet.br Scientists project that the chances of the asteroid br hitting the Earth in the next 100 years are fairly slim.br However, 'Dazed' reports that scientists br have identified 2,350 PHAs and estimate br that over 3,000 more remain unidentified.br HelioLinc3D, the algorithm responsible br for spotting asteroid 2022 SF289, was developed br for the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. .br The discovery came amid a test run br that proved that HelioLinc3D could beat br existing algorithms in detecting PHAs. .br By demonstrating the real-world br effectiveness of the software that br Rubin will use to look for thousands br of yet-unknown potentially hazardous br asteroids, the discovery of br 2022 SF289 makes us all safer, Ari Heinze, the principal developer of HelioLinc3D and a br researcher at the University of Washington, via 'Dazed'.br Scientists believe that the Rubin observatory, br combined with the capabilities of HelioLinc3D, will br be capable of spotting new PHAs on a daily basis.