Dario says AI could beat cancer like smallpox, gets called uneducated
fkasummer · x · 2026-11-15
Dario Amodei says he believes AI can cure heart disease, Alzheimer's and cancer the way bubonic plague and smallpox were beaten, admitting he sounds 'starry-eyed' and 'crazy', while acknowledging heavy skepticism from pharma, early-stage biotech, and academic biologists: "Maybe the skeptics are right. But my hope is that we prove the skeptics wrong."
Commenter fkasummer sharply criticized the claim: technologists without broad, deep reading in the humanities and sciences beyond CS "end up sounding like this — he doesn't sound starry-eyed or controversial, he sounds uneducated."
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