Investor: AI's radical speedup of knowledge discovery could yield cancer cures
matt_slotnick · x · 2026-10-19
The author reflects that amid the oscillation between Anthropic-style AI optimism and Wall Street financialization, it's worth pausing on one fact: AI has radically accelerated knowledge discovery in ways that could produce cures for cancers — hard not to feel awe.
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