Researchers push back: blocking frontier models from drug discovery costs real lives
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-17
A widely shared take: while theoretical AI risks dominate debate, real patients are dying daily. Safety matters, but slowing progress and blocking researchers from using the strongest models to find new medicines is not the way.
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