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Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said Thursday that with the help of AI scientists will likely “understand most diseases” in the next three to five years, in what will be a “first for humans on the planet.”
“If you understand the disease, you will find a way to go fix it,” Bancel said at Semafor’s World Economy Summit. “The reason we still have people dying of cancer, people suffering from Alzheimers, is we do not understand the fundamental biology of those diseases.”
On the drug development side, Bancel said AI will help pharmaceutical companies like Moderna speed up the process of getting new medicines from the lab to patients. Diagnosing conditions like heart disease will also be easier with AI tools, he said.
“I’m more optimistic because we have been using the tool a lot, and some of the insights we’re starting to get from a scientific standpoint are things that none of our scientists were aware of,” he added.
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By David Zapolsky, Senior Vice President, Global Public Policy & General Counsel
Amazon is focused on improving our customers’ lives with practical, useful AI innovations, and we are committed to the continued development and deployment of responsible AI. We are also democratizing access to AI across businesses of all sizes with more than 100,000 businesses using machine learning services offered through Amazon Web Services.
We have introduced built-in tools, customer protections, and resources to enhance transparency in our AI products and services. We launched Amazon Titan Image Generator, which produces studio-quality, realistic images and enhances existing images using text prompts. We are adding invisible watermarks on all Titan-generated images to help reduce the spread of misinformation.
We are embedding responsible AI into our products and services. It’s our part of the public-private partnership that’s necessary to advance a pro-innovation regulatory approach to AI. The U.S. can create regulation that protects against risk, while also ensuring we don’t hinder innovation, and such an approach will allow Amazon to innovate on behalf of our customers.