Health, Longevity & Biohacking
Zuckerberg Says Disease Cure Timeline of 100 Years Now Too Conservative
No Priors Podcast
Biohub: The Future of Biology is Open-Source with Co-Founders Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, and Head of Science Alex Rives
"People thought that by the end of the century was a stretch. Now I think it's like too conservative. The theory isn't that we're going to cure the diseases. We're not. It's that we want to help accelerate the pace of progress for the whole scientific field."
Mark Zuckerberg revised his original century-long timeline for curing all diseases, stating that recent AI advances make it too conservative. He clarified that BioHub's strategy is not to cure diseases directly but to accelerate the entire scientific field through open-source tools, fundamentally changing the pace of biological research through computational models and shared infrastructure.
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