Biologists and AI researchers talk past each other on AI curing diseases timeline
rbhar90 · x · 2026-08-17
Discusses the disconnect between biologists and AI practitioners regarding the prediction that AI will cure most diseases in 5-10 years. Biologists argue that curing diseases is bottlenecked by understanding and data, specifically clinical data limited by the speed of human disease progression. AI can help with automatable tasks or data-rich areas (like binder design and trial ops) but cannot overcome fundamental data scarcity.
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