Emilia Javorsky
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 20 Mar
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Grand societal challenges are rarely intelligence-limited problems, but systems-limited ones.
The uncomfortable reality is that the primary bottlenecks to curing cancer are systemic problems and misalignments within our current power to change.
Even if super intelligent AI genies existed today, their wish-granting ability in medicine would be severely constrained by factors no amount of compute can overcome.
Who am I?
And why did I write this?
I'm Amelia Jaworski, MD, MPH, and I am the director of the Futures Program at the Future of Life Institute.
Throughout my career, I've had the opportunity to work bench to bedside from basic science, co-founding startups, conducting clinical trials, medicine, regulatory compliance,
to public health.
In 2017, I became motivated to work on how to ensure AI advances human progress and to ensure that we're not taking on risk without benefits.
At this point, many in the biosecurity community, an area that overlapped with my work in public health,
We're thinking about the potential risks emerging from artificial intelligence.
Since the launch of consumer-facing LLMs and multi-billion dollar AI fundraising rounds, these two previously disconnected worlds, medicine and AI, have collided with the promise of artificial superintelligence.
This is the magic genie which many companies suggest will grant us cancer cures.
The corporate promise is unsurprising.
But what is strange is that the claim has gone largely unexamined.
I have seen how a new therapy is developed, and intelligence, super or otherwise, was definitely not the bottleneck.
I believe we need to break down the promise and examine both the real and exciting ways current AI tools can advance medicine and also flag what the holdups actually are to medical progress.
Chapter 2 Reckoning with Past Failures
Silicon Valley's Healthcare Graveyard The current promises of cancer cures must be contextualized within a long history of failed efforts by technology companies
to transform healthcare.
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