Using OpenEvidence, a user found a cancer clinical trial that saved his father
saranormous · x · 2026-09-03
- Quoting a skeptic asking whether AI has created any actual human welfare (not just enterprise value), a user shares a concrete counterexample: OpenEvidence helped him find a clinical trial to treat his father's cancer that they would otherwise never have discovered.
- The exchange contrasts with the view that AI has mainly made advertising and search worse, offering a rare directly attributable welfare gain.
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