AI and Cancer: Why Superintelligence Won’t Get Us to a Cure

AI and Cancer: Why Superintelligence Won’t Get Us to a Cure

April 30, 2026 · 47 min · Episode 133

About this episode

Dr. Emilia Javorsky discusses the implications of AI in medicine and challenges the notion that it will cure cancer.

"AI will cure cancer" is the promise driving the race to superintelligence. But what if it's a false promise being used to justify an unfettered race for profit? That's what Dr. Emilia Javorsky argues on this week's episode. She makes the case that AI can revolutionize medicine, but not in the way we're being sold.

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