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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
James Briscoe and Charles Swanton

If AI can learn how life works, it could help us live longer, healthier lives

There is understandable uncertainty around AI, especially in healthcare. But harnessed well, AI could transform the future of medicine.

AI is already improving healthcare, from supporting diagnostic screening, to accelerating drug discovery. Its true potential, however, is to help us understand how life works: what keeps us healthy, what causes disease to start and progress, why we respond differently to infection, and why two patients with the same diagnosis can experience different treatment outcomes.

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