Slowing AI Has a Cost Too: Delayed Cancer Treatments and Lost Years of Science
VraserX · x · 2026-09-13
Pushing back on calls to slow down AI, the author argues that demanding a slowdown sounds responsible but the price is paid by others: delayed cancer treatments, slower drug discovery, and years of lost scientific progress. Fear, the post contends, carries its own cost.
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