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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by Marha01 on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:35AM (#50484129)
Human trials do not exist solely because of the uncertainty, but it is true that a medicine with a significant effect could be accepted after heavily shortened trials. If AI hypothetically invents a cure for a serious disease that immediately works for virtually everyone that takes it, there is no way how the trials would take years. They only take years because the effects tend to be "we decreased mortality from 80% to 70%", and it takes a lot of time to confirm that.
Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by jfoster on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:50AM (#50484359)
> Human trials do not exist solely because of the uncertainty

OK. If you already have perfect confidence in a treatment, what would a trial do for you?

Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by Marha01 on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:58AM (#50484494)
There will still be a trial, it will just be significantly shortened if the effect is very strong (and the disease is serious enough, so any risks from a shortened trial are outweighted by the disease itself).