Does Moderna's cancer vaccine use AI? ML likely helps at two key stages
HarperSCarroll · x · 2026-08-25
Addressing the debate over whether Moderna's cancer vaccine uses "AI", Harper Carroll clarifies that AI/ML likely helps at two stages:
- Finding the tumor's mutations: some variant callers use machine learning (e.g. Google's DeepVariant), others use statistical models.
- Ranking mutation candidates: predicting which fragments will likely be displayed by the patient's immune molecules and trigger a T-cell response — very likely machine learning.
She notes ML is a subset of AI, and even Bayesian models have long been considered AI.
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