"Doctors did not ask for this work to be done": the joke about GPT-7 curing cancer
skdh · x · 2026-10-10
A viral one-liner from blader imagines GPT-7 finding a cure for cancer, only to be met with "Doctors did not ask for this work to be done." It's a pointed satire of how transformative AI breakthroughs might be dismissed by incumbent professions — the same reflex now playing out in real debates about AI in science and medicine.
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