Curing all human disease in 5-10 years? We can't even measure it.
cjmaddison · x · 2026-08-17
Critiques the hype around AI curing all human disease soon. The bottleneck isn't just protein folding; it's the inability to measure most diseases due to a lack of biomarkers, clinical outcome assessments, trial sites, and good animal models.
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