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Laboratorio de biotecnología con un holograma de ADN y pantallas de análisis de datos médicos
Imagen alusiva: un laboratorio de biotecnología con análisis de datos médicos, en el debate sobre inteligencia artificial y salud. · EPM

Brockman sees disease breakthroughs ahead and death becoming a choice

Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI, said at a technology forum that artificial intelligence will bring real advances against diseases within 12 to 18 months…

--- The context --- Talk of technology delivering cures has become a recurring theme inside the artificial intelligence industry. The largest companies in the field present their systems as tools able to review volumes of medical and biological information that scientific teams would need far longer to examine. In that climate of rising expectations, the words of the sector's most visible executives carry weight far beyond their own companies. Every forecast about health and longevity draws attention, even while the distance between what is announced and what has been demonstrated remains wide. --- The facts --- Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI, spoke at a technology forum and argued that artificial intelligence could change medicine in the short term. He said that within the next 12 to 18 months there would be real results, significant advances and important impacts in biology, health and the curing of diseases. The executive went further. He held that everyone suffers and that even the mere act of thinking about death could become a choice, and he added that all of this is possible. He did not specify how or when such a thing could happen, but his message points to a future where dying is no longer inevitable. --- The positions --- Brockman acknowledged that talking about cures thanks to technology has become a commonplace in the field, but he maintained that this time there will be visible differences. His case rests on programs able to analyze enormous volumes of medical and biological information at a speed that human teams cannot match. Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer of Palantir, offered another view from inside the same enthusiasm. He said some researchers are so convinced this technology will find the cure for cancer that they have even taken up habits harmful to their health, a phenomenon he described as collective psychosis or a massive social delusion. --- What remains unknown --- It remains unknown which concrete results would fill the 12 to 18 month timeline Brockman announced, and which diseases those advances would focus on. There is also no known mechanism or calendar supporting the idea of death as a choice, a claim placed far from what science has demonstrated so far. --- Unanswered questions --- What verifiable advances will OpenAI present within the 12 to 18 month window its president announced? What scientific evidence available today makes it possible to speak of death as a personal choice? How much of the enthusiasm Sankar described rests on data, and how much on a shared expectation inside the sector? --- EPM analysis --- The contrast is the heart of this story. On one side, two executives from central artificial intelligence companies describe a future of near cures and a different relationship with death. On the other, the available balance acknowledges that curing complex diseases or turning death into a personal decision remains far from demonstrated. Between both extremes sits a concrete deadline that will let words be measured against facts. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the value of these statements lies in the deadline Brockman himself set: 12 to 18 months are a checkable commitment, not a metaphor, and the industry should answer with published, reviewed results instead of new promises. The idea of death as a choice belongs today to the realm of speculation and should be treated as such, without granting it the status of a scientific forecast. The enthusiasm Sankar described should also be read as a warning: when a sector becomes convinced before it demonstrates, public caution becomes an obligation.
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