The cancer arguement on slide 20 is pretty weak. I first need to be alive in the long term to worry about the long term effects. If I had terminal cancer I'd gladly take an AI developed 'cure'.

There are still a lot of treatments/medicines in medical science where we dont know 100% the real reason as to why it does what it does but we still prescribe them because the intended effect is what we are interested in.

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Loughla 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm currently on two fairly common medicines that have, in the first paragraph when reading about them, "doctors are unsure of the specific action, but it is thought that [medicine does x to y]"

If I'm terminal with cancer, I'll inject whatever if it can cure that.

	▲	alansaber 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly, we only get to run risky clinical trials because patients are 100% desperate and know they are likely to die otherwise.