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Dr. Emilia Javorsky

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279 total appearances

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Your Undivided Attention
Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

Like we still don't actually know that question because all of our data is when people present to a system that are sick, right?

Your Undivided Attention
Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

And so I think that is a great example of like public infrastructure investment in data collection that is clinically relevant to help us bridge that gap of like the mouse to the human, right?

Your Undivided Attention
Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

How do we know if something works in a human being?

Your Undivided Attention
Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

How can we better predict that?

Your Undivided Attention
Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

It's gonna start with measuring and studying people at the end of the day.

Your Undivided Attention
Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

I think there's the piece of AI investments in general, and I would argue we should be investing a lot more in AI just in medicine and in tool development.

Your Undivided Attention
Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

And there are so many areas that this is really exciting for AI to discover new biomarkers, right?

Your Undivided Attention
Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

New things in your blood that you can start to see, well, is something working or not?

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Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

Or is a surrogate of a disease that can help accelerate therapeutic development there?

Your Undivided Attention
Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

helping to detect things earlier.

Your Undivided Attention
Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

We use the AI in mammography example.

Your Undivided Attention
Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

And so those are all like AI tools that need to be built that are going to actually like unblock progress in oncology that we're just not investing in because that money is going into building the ASI promise.

Your Undivided Attention
Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

Yeah, fundamentally, I'm super bullish on the promise of AI and oncology and medicine in general.

Your Undivided Attention
Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

It's just the right kind of AI development that's targeted to actually solving the problems and unblocking the things that are holding up our ability to move science forward.

Your Undivided Attention
Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

I would also add to that landscape, Tristan, the AI on the manufacturing side of things.

Your Undivided Attention
Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

So like, how do we actually make drugs at scale?

Your Undivided Attention
Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

How do we do quality control?

Your Undivided Attention
Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

Looking at something like CAR-T therapy, which is a cell-based therapy to help treat cancers in patients that's very individualized.

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Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

And because it's individualized, it's very expensive to make.

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Why Superintelligence Won’t Cure Cancer

Right now, it's upwards of $400,000 to access the therapy.