Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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438 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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You make every fight your fight.
And eventually if that explodes, it explodes.
But you can't survive it by leaning out because that will always come back to haunt you.
The only way you can survive is by leaning in.
Well, I can tell you what I'm doing.
In some ways, I think of myself in my own journey or fight against cancer as an opportunist.
In other words, if new technology comes along and I can push it to use in cancer, I'll bring it along and make it useful for cancer.
AI is the single most revolutionary technology of our generation.
And if we are not using it for cancer, we're losing the plot.
So in other words, people have all sorts of paranoias and fears about AI.
They're worried about, you know, job loss and, you know, fake news and so forth.
And I think if there is one use case of AI that is optimistic, it's medicine.
I started a new effort company called Manus AI.
Manas comes from the Sanskrit word for brain or mind.
So the idea is to turn the mind of AI to make new cancer medicines.
Cheaply, better, more efficiently, and superior medicines.
And the way we do that is by, you know, you can't go into Claude or, you know, Gemini and say, find me a medicine for breast cancer and out pops an answer.
What you have to do is you have to go and teach it the basic rules of medicinal chemistry, physics, and to some extent biology, but basic rules of medicinal chemistry, to teach it how to build a medicine, just like humans build medicines.
Humans don't build medicines by going into Claude Code and writing a code for medicines.
They make it...
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