Anthropic CEO claims cancer will be eliminated in 10 yrs:AI will discover drugs rapidly; pharma companies scientists call it nonsense

Cancer, Alzheimer’s and heart disease, which kill millions of people around the world every year, will be eradicated within the next 10 years. This claim was made by Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, the company that makes the AI chatbot Claude. Amodei said, “With the help of AI, life-threatening diseases such as cancer will become a thing of the past within the next decade.” Pharmaceutical companies and scientists have dismissed the claim as nonsense. Claim of completing 10 years’ work in weeks It is not just Dario Amodei; prominent figures such as Elon Musk and Google AI chief Demis Hassabis also believe that AI will bring revolutionary changes to the medical field. Tools such as Google’s ‘AlphaFold’ have proved that work which used to take years can be completed by AI in just a few weeks. This will make it possible to find treatments for almost all serious diseases over the next 10 years. They cited Google’s ‘AlphaFold’ as an example; it has mapped more than 20 crore protein structures. Musk says ordinary people will receive treatment like presidents The world’s richest person, Elon Musk, also believes that AI will completely transform the medical world. He claims that, in the future, technology will enable every ordinary person in the world to receive the same excellent and advanced treatment that today is available only to the President of the United States. Pharmaceutical companies and scientists called the claims nonsense Major pharmaceutical companies and scientists think very differently. Jeff Leiden, head of the pharmaceutical giant ‘Vertex Pharmaceuticals’, has dismissed these claims outright, calling them “nonsense”. He said his company had tried more than 50 AI companies, but none had been able to independently develop even one useful drug. Pharma experts say that finding a drug formula on a computer is only the beginning. It must then go through lengthy stages, including laboratory testing and trials on animals and humans, a process that takes 10 to 12 years. AI cannot bring this lengthy legal and scientific process to an end overnight. Not a single AI-created drug has yet been approved for the market Experts such as scientist Gary Marcus and Dr Eric Topol say that today’s AI does not fully understand the complexities of the human body and diseases. According to the data, not a single AI-developed drug has been approved for full market launch as of 2026. Experts also say that similarly sweeping claims were made about cancer in the 1970s, but they did not come true. Therefore, the public should not be given false hope by announcing dates without any basis.