Patrick Hsu: How Is AI Catalyzing Life Science?

Patrick Hsu: How Is AI Catalyzing Life Science?

July 20, 2026 · 58 min

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Patrick Hsu discusses the impact of AI on life sciences and genome editing technologies.

“The future of biology is programmable.” To give you a sense of how important this topic is, Patrick Hsu is the first guest we’ve had back to Ground Truths since the podcast began a few years ago. Nearly 2 years ago we spoke about digital biology but so much has happened since to help unravel the complexities in the language of life. Patrick is a co-founder and core investigator at the Arc Institute . His work is at the intersection of biology, engineering, and AI. At the ripe old age of 33, he’s a pioneer of genome editing technologies and my go-to for tracking progress in digital biology. Besides that he’s a great explainer with frequent use of metaphors and simplification of very complicated stuff. Here’s what we discussed with the relevant links: —Our recent review in Nature Biotechnology on the large language of life models (LLLMs). GBAI-generalist biological artificial intelligence —The 2 multi-agent AI Nature papers in May for accelerating drug discovery: Full House (Robin) and Google Deep Mind (Co-Scientist) Multiple drug candidates were described as an outgrowth of multi-agent AI , with a 200-fold decrease in workflow time. Below Figure from synthesis of the Robin and…

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