Anthropic CEO Doubles Down on AI Curing Most Diseases Within a Decade

Dario Amodei is not known for being the most active on X but yesterday on August 16, his two-part reply to investor Gavin Baker, CIO of Atreides Management brought over 14 million views as of this writing and even got Elon Musk to react to the thread. The second part of the reply highlighted the prediction he is best known for in that AI will make it possible to cure most human diseases in around five to ten years. He acknowledged how that reads by saying that the thought of it likely sounds crazy to ordinary people and to biologists as well.

Why Amodei Was Replying At All

Baker had spent part of an An-In podcast segment on Anthropic, stating that he had been told Amodei privately brought up the possibility that his company could be the only private company left in the world, with governments running everything else. Baker followed it up on X with a broader complaint. He argued that Amodei has lost the regulation argument and that he should be a more positive advocate for the industry he leads.

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