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What does AI progress mean for medical progress?

Jacob Trefethen · 2 Aug 2025 · blog.jacobtrefethen.com ↗

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  1. Our reading

    Rapid AI progress does not automatically produce rapid medical progress; without complementary investment, people still get cancer and Alzheimer's.

    Their wordsRapid AI progress does not automatically mean rapid medical progress. If the point of AI progress is human flourishing, we must make other complementary investments too.
    Interesting

  2. Our reading

    Not every bottleneck on medical progress is one AI can remove, and which ones will remain can be guessed at now.

    Their wordsBut I don’t think all bottlenecks on medical progress are equally AI-able in the next decade, and I don’t think all will become irrelevant.
    Interesting