What Jacob Trefethen thinks about dementia

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Head of global health R&D at Open Philanthropy, where he directs funding for vaccines, drugs and diagnostics aimed at diseases that get little commercial attention. He writes at blog.jacobtrefethen.com and co-hosts the Hard Drugs podcast with Saloni Dattani.

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   Our readingRapid 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.

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