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SCOUT· 49%47m·2026-04-30·TechnologyAI and Cancer: Why Superintelligence Won’t Get Us to a Cure
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One of the most common arguments you hear from company executives racing to develop super-intelligent AI is that it will cure cancer. It’s an incredibly powerful and seductive promise. If superintelligent AI really can cure cancer, then anyone who stands in the way of it, anyone who wants to slow it down — even…
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