Researcher: accelerating medicine beats slowing AI over theoretical risks
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-17
Stanford researcher Sérgio Rodriques argues that while people worry about theoretical engineered pandemics, over 1% of the population already dies every year to disease and old age. Safety matters, but slowing progress and blocking researchers from using the strongest models to find new medicines is not the way to save lives — accelerating medicine is. Genomics researcher Anshul Kundaje amplified the thread.
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