Why does it matter?
Finishing the job on infectious disease would be one of the clearest humanitarian wins from AI.
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Reliable prevention and treatment of nearly all natural infectious disease. Given the enormous advances against infectious disease in the 20th century, it is not radical to imagine that we could more or less finish the job in a compressed 21st. mRNA vaccines and similar technology already point the way towards vaccines for anything.
Dario Amodei