AI and Cancer: Why Superintelligence Won’t Get Us to a Cure

Your Undivided Attention by Center for Humane Technology

Apr 30, 202600:47:09Technology

"AI will cure cancer" is the promise driving the race to superintelligence. But what if it's a false promise being used to justify an unfettered race for profit? That's what Dr. Emilia Javorsky argues on this week's epis...

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