AI labs are leaning heavily into bio — stunning biological advances expected within years
ZeroStateReflex · x · 2026-10-24
Quoting tszzl's prediction of stunning biological advances within a few years — possibly near-term solutions to cancer and neurodegenerative disease — Andrew Curran notes that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are all leaning heavily into biology, and argues readers have a non-trivial chance of living much longer, while acknowledging skepticism about AI-bio results.
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