Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, recently published an essay called 'Machines of Loving Grace.' It sketches out his vision for how AI could radically transform neuroscience, economics, diplomacy, and the meaning of work. Amodei also imagines the ways AI could accelerate biological research and yield miraculous cures in the 21st century; everything from the prevention and treatment of nearly all infectious and inherited diseases to the elimination of most cancers. 'Biology is probably the area where scientific progress has the greatest potential to directly and unambiguously improve the quality of human life,' Amodei writes. 'My basic prediction is that AI-enabled biology and medicine will allow us to compress the progress that human biologists would have achieved over the next 50-100 years into 5-10 years.' This is an inspiring vision, but as Amodei acknowledges, achieving it will first require that we think deeply about existing bottlenecks and then roadmap ways to solve them....
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