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Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by BoxOfRain on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:47AM (#50485236)
Okay but let's for the sake of argument that Claude magically has all the information required cure all of these families of diseases. How does Amodei intend to deal with the fact the regulation of medical devices is a slow, lengthy process for a lot of very good reasons like preventing something like thalidomide going on the market? Is Claude going to magically spin up considerably more regulatory capacity out of thin air, and will it gather evidence for safety and effectiveness at the required standard to show to those regulators?

This is just one problem I have with his claim, there are many others.

Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by Tadpole9181 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:02PM (#50486363)
Read the letter being discussed. Alongside claims of medical innovations, he also says it can be used to speed up government bureaucracies.

Now, whether that's true is obviously it's own question. But I do think if AI can cure cancer and Alzheimer's rapidly, that improving the regulatory and approval processes at agencies is a much lower bar.

Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med... by dualvariable on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:16PM (#50487491)
A lot of those bureaucratic regulations are written in blood and are slow and deliberate for a reason. Throwing them all out means more thalidomide disasters: Chesterton's fences and all that.