Anders Sandberg Bets Biology Millennium Problems Will Be Solved by AI 'Way Sooner Than Reasonable'
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-21
Anders Sandberg responded to FutureHouse's "Millennium Problems for Biology" by proposing bets on when they'll be solved — likely by AI. His guess: "way sooner than would have seemed reasonable a few years ago," with one sad exception: cryopreservation.
The underlying list from Edison Scientific and FutureHouse is framed as the "last reasonable eval" for AI in biology: extremely hard to solve, easily validated in a simple lab, with each solution marking a major biotech advance and most contributing materially to curing disease.
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