Emilia Javorsky

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Future of Life Institute Podcast · What AI Companies Get Wrong About Curing Cancer (with Emilia Javorsky) · 20 Mar 2026 podcast

So I've actually had the opportunity to see each of those phases of development of a new therapy and get sort of the insight into how the sausage is made and like what is the narrative of how these things happen and then what's actually happening in the field and on the ground of how these things happen.

And by sort of a series of events, as life is, I originally was involved in sort of biosecurity about 10 years ago and became interested in the intersection of that, at that time, the emerging idea of AI that was coming onto the scene and have been involved since then in the AI conversation for the better part of nine, 10 years.

And

For a long time, these two lives I had were very disconnected, talking about AI policy and the quest for super intelligence, and then doing science in the lab and thinking about how to actually get new therapies to patients.

And those kind of collided in recent years with this promise that's coming out of a lot of the big tech companies that

this technology, in fact, will deliver cancer cures, which has kind of been one of their flagship promises.

So I decided to say, hey, like, we should break that down.

And I've been pretty surprised how unexamined that promise has gone in sort of popular culture and throughout narratives and media and news that it's kind of accepted at face value that, oh, this technology will do this thing that is being claimed.

And so I kind of felt seeing the disconnect between what

where the state of that technology is and how that problem's being approached from the AI side and knowing what's actually happening on the ground on the biotech and medical side, highlighting where that delta is and where technology can and can't move the needle.

Yes.

So this has been remarkably conserved flagship promise across tech companies that are developing artificial general intelligence or super intelligence that this technology is necessary for XYZ and flagship promise has been cure cancer.

Don't we want to cure cancer?

This will cure cancer.

how could you be against the development of this technology?

You're holding up cancer treatments.

Think of the children here.

And I think that that hit me both as a professional coming from the medical world, but also personally, because my father passed away of cancer.

And I think everyone knows a family member or someone they've loved that has passed away from cancer or whose life has been ever forever changed by cancer.

And so to me on a,

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