Dario Amodei says AI will cure cancer and Alzheimer's in a decade. Doctors aren't buying it.

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Some in the medical community aren't so certain that AI will cure cancer and Alzheimer's in the next decade, as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted.

A cure for cancer is less than a decade away, if you ask Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. If you ask some in the medical community, though, that timeline is a bit ambitious, if not altogether unrealistic. In a 42-minute IPO roadshow video the company released on Tuesday, Amodei made the audacious prediction that "cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, mental illness — these will be relics of the past in, I think, less than a decade." The claim that all those diseases, which have bedeviled medicine's best minds for centuries, will be suddenly cured by AI riled some AI naysayers and physicians, who took to X to voice their disbelief.

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