After Math, When Will AI Tackle Cancer? A Call for Healthcare Focus
imjustnewatai · x · 2026-08-03
The author expresses amazement at recent AI breakthroughs in mathematics but urges leading labs like OpenAI and Anthropic to pivot their focus toward healthcare, specifically targeting diseases like cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's.
While acknowledging that biology is harder to validate than math—which offers instant verification—the author proposes a closed-loop solution: connecting AI models to automated labs. The model could propose treatments, the lab would test them, and the model would learn from the results, iterating continuously while retaining all existing human knowledge to discover novel therapies.
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