The quest for a cancer cure dates back thousands of years. Some of the earliest known research dates to ancient Egypt, where Imhotep, the physician and architect to King Djoser, described a human tumor on papyrus around 2600 BC.
Now, a growing chorus of tech leaders is singing the praises of AI as the key to solving the medical mystery that has puzzled physicians for millennia. It’s what Google president Ruth Porat predicted last October. And it’s why Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei coined the term “the compressed 21st century,” reflecting his view that AI will accelerate medical progress. But some in the medical field think that forecast is at least a bit overshot.
