Dario Amodei: wildest AI progress is in biology, Claude spotted missed diagnoses
Olivier__OG · x · 2026-09-11
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says some of the wildest AI progress he has seen is in biology and medicine: Claude has helped identify medical issues doctors missed, and models are becoming surprisingly capable in drug design and computational chemistry. He frames AI as a serious reasoning layer for diagnosis support, drug discovery, and molecular design — a scientific partner, not a replacement, with clinical judgment and human responsibility still essential.
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