Amodei Says AI Will Cure Cancer in a Decade. Doctors Are Skeptical

In a 42-minute IPO roadshow video, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted that cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease and mental illness will be "relics of the past" in less than a decade, drawing pushback from physicians and AI skeptics on X. Germany's former health minister Karl Lauterbach said such cures are "impossible in just 10 years," while AI medical researcher Melinda B. Chu said the predictions were made to stoke hype for the company's IPO. Anthropic has bought several biotech startups and said in an October blog post that it had "begun drug discovery efforts of our own."