Critics slam Amodei's cure-all prediction: AI bubble draining investment from real biotech
AlexTensor · x · 2026-11-12
Responding to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's prediction that cancer and other diseases will be cured within a decade, a critic argues the "fund us and we'll cure cancer" pitch is an old scam — and this round is more unethical because the AI bubble has been siphoning investment away from biotech companies actually doing the work, all for what they call a chatbot delusion.
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