Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s co-founder and president, told an audience at a WSJ Tech event that artificial intelligence could deliver major medical breakthroughs within the next year and a half, and that death itself might eventually become optional.
\n\nTechSpot reports that Brockman said the field has long promised cures for disease, a promise that’s circulated since ChatGPT’s launch, but argued the technology is now close to delivering on it. “Having cures for diseases is something that’s become also a trope in this field, but I think that you’re gonna see real delivery and real significant strides and impacts on biology, health, and curing of diseases over the next 12 months, 18 months,” he said.
\n\nThen he went further, raising the possibility that AI’s progress could eventually let people choose whether to die at all. “I think that we all suffer, that the question of even just thinking about death becoming a choice. All of this is possible,” Brockman said.
\n\nHe’s not the only one saying things like this. Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer at Palantir, said last month that some AI researchers believe so strongly that AI will cure cancer that they’ve taken up smoking because of it. He called the…
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