Scientists push back on Demis Hassabis' claim AI will cure all diseases in 10 years
coherence · x · 2026-11-08
Demis Hassabis reiterated his prediction that AI will cure all diseases within 10 years and reverse aging in 15 years. Veteran biomedical scientists aren't buying it: while they respect Demis, some argue promising cures to terminally ill patients amounts to "false hope" and is "a little messed up." A 35-year biomedical researcher forwarding the clip agrees with Demis, attributing skepticism to cognitive dissonance — the smarter people are, the harder it is to imagine machine intelligence achieving what humans couldn't.
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