Terence Tao's Math 2.0 lecture asks if an AI cancer cure could still have harmful long-term side effects
haider1 · x · 2026-10-11
In his latest "Math 2.0" lecture, Terence Tao posed a thought experiment: even if AI discovered a cancer cure verified by mathematical models, clinical trials, and formal proofs, could it still have harmful long-term side effects? The poster, haider, says he gets Tao's point but considers it a very bad analogy, without elaborating on why.
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