It might be seen as even less important than distributing food to the starving, and medicine to the sick, of which there is still not enough going on.

But there is at least one other pathway. As an AGI researcher, I believe that artificial intelligence will solve the problem for us, and, all other things being equal, the cure will be made available everywhere, at the same time.

My own research makes me believe that we are not very far from that outcome.