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What If AI Found the Cure, and You Still Couldn't Get It? · Connor with Honor: AI, Real Estate and Real Life

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SPEAKER_00: So what if artificial intelligence actually cured cancer tomorrow?
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SPEAKER_00: This is something that growing up in my generation, the uh Gen Xersers and of course baby boomers, they brought this into the old mindset and they said, well, you know, if somebody ever discovered something that was making so many other people billions and billions of dollars, the cure probably would never really surface.
0:21
SPEAKER_00: In fact, that's kind of the underlying tone in the different types of diseases out there.
0:26
SPEAKER_00: You know, everybody says tongue-in-cheek jesting, well, you know, they've already found a cure.
0:30
SPEAKER_00: They're just not going to release it because there's so much money made by trying to keep it going as long as possible without actually curing it and fixing it.
0:38
SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, what I wanted to do is a little thought experiment because it's not about if AI solves cancer, cures it, it's going to be about when.
0:47
SPEAKER_00: I believe that this greater than us intelligence is going to be able to solve all issues, but how much of that is going to be transferred to us?
0:55
SPEAKER_00: Now, I don't know where this is going to go, and if you've ever had anybody in your periphery, somebody that you love, actually get cancer, either survive it or die of it, both situations.
1:07
SPEAKER_00: The survival of it has its own set of pain points that come along with it.
1:11
SPEAKER_00: Just watching them go through the trauma of getting cured or putting it at bay is just an absolute nightmare.
1:20
SPEAKER_00: And then you have the other one, which I've got to experience both, and then they die of cancer, and that's just a horrible way to go as well.
1:27
SPEAKER_00: And so there you kind of know where I'm coming from.
1:32
SPEAKER_00: So let me paint for you a picture.
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SPEAKER_00: It's tomorrow morning.
1:35
SPEAKER_00: You wake up, you grab your coffee, scroll your phone, and there it is.
1:40
SPEAKER_00: Every news outlet, every social media feed, the same headline, AI System Discovers the Universal Cancer Cure, verified by independent researchers.
1:50
SPEAKER_00: Now, this isn't clickbait, it's been completely verified.
1:53
SPEAKER_00: It's not hype, a small group of researchers, whether it's MIT or Stanford or some lab in Switzerland or maybe some road scientists out of China who nobody of none of them waited for permission.
2:05
SPEAKER_00: I think that probably happens in a lot of cases.
2:07
SPEAKER_00: They tested it on themselves or on family or on terminal patients who volunteered.
2:12
SPEAKER_00: Again, no approval, not legal, but they did it.
2:16
SPEAKER_00: Stage four pancreatic cancer curved.
2:18
SPEAKER_00: You know, stage four breast cancer cured, solved, liver cancer, all the big ones, all of it.
2:25
SPEAKER_00: Brain tumor death sentences dissolved, mestatic lung cancer spread everywhere, reversed, done.
2:32
SPEAKER_00: Works 100% on every type of cancer they tested.
2:35
SPEAKER_00: Now, the mechanism comes from AI.
2:37
SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's Alpha Fold 4 or something from anthropic or open AI, but they found a basic protein target that no human being had ever consisted, a way to make cancer cells self-destruct while leaving healthy cells completely untouched.
2:52
SPEAKER_00: 100% verified.
2:53
SPEAKER_00: So it's real verified.
2:55
SPEAKER_00: Sitting in a published paper with all the data, now it happens.
2:58
SPEAKER_00: Now, there's an argument, would it actually make it from the cure?
3:02
SPEAKER_00: Would the people that were cured through this entire process, albeit illegal, no FDA, none of the other government oversight and stuff, but would they actually be able to keep that secret?
3:13
SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
3:13
SPEAKER_00: Hard to say.
3:14
SPEAKER_00: But let's say this is really what happened.
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SPEAKER_00: The first hour, the announcement.
3:18
SPEAKER_00: So the moment this news breaks, what happens in your house?
3:22
SPEAKER_00: And of course, you know, you kind of go back.
3:24
SPEAKER_00: Do you call your mom, your brother, who had that scare last year?
3:27
SPEAKER_00: Do you think of your friend who lost her husband to colon cancer at 42?
3:31
SPEAKER_00: Do you have people currently within this particular cycle going through it?
3:35
SPEAKER_00: Maybe you yourself.
3:36
SPEAKER_00: But here's a question: what's that first emotion that you're going to feel?
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SPEAKER_00: Is it going to be joy?
3:41
SPEAKER_00: Is it going to be relief?
3:43
SPEAKER_00: Or is there something else creeping in?
3:45
SPEAKER_00: You know, that tiny, tiny voice atomic that's saying, well, is it real?
3:49
SPEAKER_00: Can I trust this?
3:49
SPEAKER_00: And especially with all the AI nonsense out there, all the fakes.
3:53
SPEAKER_00: So you have people that you know speaking, it looks just like them, sounds just like them, mannerisms, everything exact, but it's nowhere near them, but they're saying certain things.
4:03
SPEAKER_00: Is this something we can trust?
4:05
SPEAKER_00: But for purposes of this, you know, let's let's say it is.
4:09
SPEAKER_00: And, you know, of course, you're going to have these questions.
4:11
SPEAKER_00: You know, we've been burned before.
4:12
SPEAKER_00: How many times have we seen a headline?
4:14
SPEAKER_00: I heard somebody uh just the other day mention a very uh reputable person in the EI space talk about they did come up with a cure for cancer.
4:22
SPEAKER_00: But I I again, you know, that was it.
4:24
SPEAKER_00: It wasn't talked about anymore.
4:25
SPEAKER_00: Maybe it was probably something that he misspoke about.
4:28
SPEAKER_00: Because if they did, I'm sure they would let us all have it, right?
4:31
SPEAKER_00: Well, anyway, so these little thoughts, you know, scientists discover breakthrough cancer treatments and then nothing.
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SPEAKER_00: It disappears, never hear about it again.
4:40
SPEAKER_00: Case in point is what I mentioned.
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SPEAKER_00: But even with verified proof, even a video of terminal patients now cancer free, would you really believe it?
4:49
SPEAKER_00: Well, so hour two, the phones start to ring.
4:51
SPEAKER_00: So let's go to the places where decisions get made.
4:54
SPEAKER_00: FDA headquarters in Maryland, someone's phone's ringing off the hook, commissioner being pulled out of a meeting, staff are scrambling.
5:01
SPEAKER_00: Here's the situation they face.
5:02
SPEAKER_00: The treatment wasn't developed through their process, no IND application, no phase one trials, no phase two trials, not to mention any other phases.
5:11
SPEAKER_00: Rogue researchers just did it, tested on humans without approval.
5:16
SPEAKER_00: Those researchers who tested it illegally, this is to you now.
5:20
SPEAKER_00: Are they heroes or criminals?
5:22
SPEAKER_00: Think about that.
5:23
SPEAKER_00: I mean, really think about it.
5:24
SPEAKER_00: They broke every rule.
5:26
SPEAKER_00: They could have killed people.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, my gosh, if the outcome wouldn't have been saving and curing it, but maybe creating some kind of a virus that wiped out, well, most of the people at least, or a whole bunch, yeah, where are they going to be then?
5:39
SPEAKER_00: Well, that would be criminals.
5:40
SPEAKER_00: Now are they heroes?
5:41
SPEAKER_00: There's a lot.
5:42
SPEAKER_00: They broke every rule.
5:43
SPEAKER_00: They could have killed people, tested an unproven treatment on human beings without regulatory approval.
5:48
SPEAKER_00: Even if maybe they were terminal, there was no further option for them.
5:52
SPEAKER_00: But they also just cured cancer.
5:54
SPEAKER_00: So do we throw them in prison or give them the Nobel Prize?
5:58
SPEAKER_00: Hour number three, this is where it starts to get interesting.
6:01
SPEAKER_00: So the stock market opens.
6:03
SPEAKER_00: New York Stock Exchange opens at 9.30 a.m.
6:06
SPEAKER_00: Eastern Standard Time.
6:07
SPEAKER_00: What happens to pharmaceutical stocks?
6:10
SPEAKER_00: Think about the companies that make billions, billions every year on cancer treatments, chemotherapy drugs, immunotherapy, radiation equipment.
6:17
SPEAKER_00: I mean, and there's so many other endeavors that are related to an incurable disease, a disease that just basically takes a lot of money just to keep the people going longer and longer and longer, but without actually curing it.
6:31
SPEAKER_00: There's lots of stuff associated with that.
6:33
SPEAKER_00: Merrick made$25 billion on Catrundra last year, a cancer drug.
6:37
SPEAKER_00: Bristol, Meyer, Squib, Roche, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, their stock prices are now in free fall, talking hundreds of billions of dollars of market value evaporating in hours.
6:47
SPEAKER_00: So how do you think those companies are going to react?
6:50
SPEAKER_00: Do they embrace the cure and pivot their business?
6:52
SPEAKER_00: Thank God they found a cancer cell.
6:55
SPEAKER_00: Well, I think most human beings would, especially if they've been near people that have died as a result of this, not being able to be cured.
7:03
SPEAKER_00: Do they celebrate that cancer is finally solved?
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SPEAKER_00: Or do they deploy armies of lawyers, lobbyists, and PR firms to cast down on the research to slow things down, to protect their shareholders?
7:14
SPEAKER_00: Because that is their job legally, from what I understand, but that's anybody that's in the stocks at that level.
7:21
SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying that they're evil.
7:23
SPEAKER_00: I'm just asking you to think about human value, about systems, about incentives.
7:26
SPEAKER_00: If the entire world, instead of fighting each other, tried to figure out how we could make life better for each and every one of us, how to increase longevity and make ourselves healthier and have a much better life, and didn't start to quit squabbling and fighting and killing each other over nonsense.
7:42
SPEAKER_00: What a weird place that would be.
7:45
SPEAKER_00: But if your retirement account was heavily invested in pharmaceutical stocks, how would you then feel about the announcement?
7:51
SPEAKER_00: Because right now a lot of the stock market is based on artificial intelligence.
7:55
SPEAKER_00: What happens if that collapses?
7:56
SPEAKER_00: Well, more good news.
7:58
SPEAKER_00: Well, here's our number four.
8:00
SPEAKER_00: The lawyers, of course, they mobilize.
8:03
SPEAKER_00: Here's something most people don't think about.
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SPEAKER_00: Those rogue researchers who proved that this cure works.
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SPEAKER_00: They tested on human subjects without consent forms, without IRB approval, without following any of the protocols designed to protect people.
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SPEAKER_00: Some of those patients were terminal.
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SPEAKER_00: They had weeks to live, maybe days.
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SPEAKER_00: They volunteered knowing full well the risks.
8:23
SPEAKER_00: But could it have been given legally that kind of consent?
8:27
SPEAKER_00: What happened was a crime.
8:29
SPEAKER_00: Well, should we have laws that prevent dying people from trying unproven treatments?
8:34
SPEAKER_00: Another question, kind of an aside.
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SPEAKER_00: On one hand, those laws exist because snake oil salesmen have killed people with fake cures for centuries.
8:43
SPEAKER_00: These regulations still do save lives.
8:47
SPEAKER_00: On the other hand, though, those regulations might delay a real cure by a decade.
8:51
SPEAKER_00: How many people die during that decade?
8:54
SPEAKER_00: There's no easy answer here.
8:56
SPEAKER_00: Sit with that discomfort for a moment.
8:58
SPEAKER_00: So demand begins.
9:00
SPEAKER_00: By the end of the first day, this is the end of day one.
9:03
SPEAKER_00: Now we got the first few hours kind of laid out a little bit, as if what maybe what we would expect.
9:08
SPEAKER_00: But by the end of day one, here's what's happening in hospitals.
9:11
SPEAKER_00: Every oncologist in America has his patients calling.
9:15
SPEAKER_00: They probably just want to shut everything off.
9:16
SPEAKER_00: A thousand emails later.
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SPEAKER_00: Patients who have active capture want this treatment now.
9:21
SPEAKER_00: People that are getting chemotherapy at that moment, I'm sure they're rushing in and wanting stuff done to change their current condition.
9:29
SPEAKER_00: Now, not in five years, not after trials.
9:31
SPEAKER_00: They want it right now.
9:32
SPEAKER_00: But here's the problem: the treatment exists in a lab, it's not manufactured.
9:36
SPEAKER_00: Maybe there's enough for a few hundred patients, however, that mechanism worked.
9:40
SPEAKER_00: I mean, but maybe the research, maybe this solve is something that's we just haven't really thought of, that might be more naturally occurring and something that everybody can do for themselves.
9:50
SPEAKER_00: Probably not, but that would be an interesting scenario as well.
9:54
SPEAKER_00: There are two million new cancer cases in the United States every year.
9:57
SPEAKER_00: And now here comes another question.
10:00
SPEAKER_00: Who gets it first?
10:01
SPEAKER_00: The sickest, the youngest, the richest, the most famous?
10:05
SPEAKER_00: What if a billionaire offers 50 million for the first dose because he wants to save his kid, his wife, or himself or herself?
10:14
SPEAKER_00: These are great questions.
10:16
SPEAKER_00: Do we let him buy his way to the front of the line?
10:17
SPEAKER_00: What if the president had cancer?
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SPEAKER_00: Does he get priority?
10:21
SPEAKER_00: What if a child versus an 80-year-old?
10:23
SPEAKER_00: Who gets it then?
10:24
SPEAKER_00: 80-year-old kind of end-of-life thing, at least for now.
10:27
SPEAKER_00: Children, they have it.
10:28
SPEAKER_00: You know, which one gets it?
10:30
SPEAKER_00: This is the trolley problem, but it's real.
10:33
SPEAKER_00: And it's um it's your mother on one track as well.
10:37
SPEAKER_00: So week one, the FDA dilemma, FDA now has a choice to make option A.
10:42
SPEAKER_00: They follow their standard protocol in place for a reason.
10:45
SPEAKER_00: They require years of clinical trials before approval.
10:49
SPEAKER_00: Is it the safe?
10:50
SPEAKER_00: That's the safe, legal, by the book approach.
10:52
SPEAKER_00: That's what that one is.
10:54
SPEAKER_00: Estimated timeline, probably five to seven years minimum.
10:57
SPEAKER_00: Number of Americans who will die of cancer during that time, 3 million numbers tell us.
11:02
SPEAKER_00: Option B, they issue an emergency use authorization.
11:05
SPEAKER_00: They fast track approval based on the existing evidence.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, they get patients in as fast as possible.
11:12
SPEAKER_00: Risk, though, what if there's a side effect that shows up after six months?
11:16
SPEAKER_00: These are other little things.
11:17
SPEAKER_00: You have these uh different drugs that are being associated with weight loss.
11:21
SPEAKER_00: They're brand new.
11:22
SPEAKER_00: They've been tested to a certain point, I would guess, but who knows what those long-term ramifications are, and that exists in every medicine that's developed.
11:30
SPEAKER_00: What if 1% of patients after six months then have a fatal reaction?
11:36
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's still 20,000 dead Americans.
11:39
SPEAKER_00: If you were the FDA commissioner, what would you do?
11:42
SPEAKER_00: And here's the harder question.
11:43
SPEAKER_00: If the FDA chooses option A, that's the cautious approach, that five to seven year timeline, and your wife dies of cancer in a year in year three of trials, how would you feel about that decision?
11:55
SPEAKER_00: What's the morally correct choice when both options actually kill people?
12:00
SPEAKER_00: Week two, that underground market.
12:02
SPEAKER_00: Well, here's what's going to happen, whether we're going to like it or not.
12:05
SPEAKER_00: The formula is public.
12:06
SPEAKER_00: AI published it, it's out there.
12:09
SPEAKER_00: Somewhere, probably multiple somewhere, people start making it in garages, roguels, and countries where regulations are different or non-existent.
12:18
SPEAKER_00: Within two weeks, you can probably buy a version of the cure on the dark web shipped from somewhere overseas.
12:24
SPEAKER_00: The question is: if you had terminal cancer and the FDA told you you had to wait five years, would you order it from the dark web?
12:32
SPEAKER_00: Now be honest with yourself.
12:33
SPEAKER_00: You don't have to answer in the chat.
12:35
SPEAKER_00: You don't have to let me know, but just, you know, something to consider.
12:37
SPEAKER_00: What if it was your child?
12:39
SPEAKER_00: Now, here's the terrifying part.
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SPEAKER_00: How do you know that what you're getting is real when you're ordering it through these systems?
12:45
SPEAKER_00: How do you know it's not contaminated?
12:47
SPEAKER_00: How do you know the dosage is right?
12:49
SPEAKER_00: Some people who order it will probably be cured.
12:52
SPEAKER_00: Some people might die from a bad batch or having them send them something that isn't real and something that might cause other issues.
12:59
SPEAKER_00: But people are dying anyway, right?
13:01
SPEAKER_00: So does that justify the risk?
13:03
SPEAKER_00: The first month we're in so far, doctors' rebellion, something interesting starts to happen in hospitals.
13:10
SPEAKER_00: Oncologists, you know, the cancer doctors, they have sworn an oath.
13:13
SPEAKER_00: First, do no harm, but they also swore to help their patients.
13:18
SPEAKER_00: They know that the cure works, they've seen the data, they've seen all the studies, they've watched the videos of the cured patients, and they have a patient right in front of them who's dying of cancer, begging them for help.
13:29
SPEAKER_00: If you were a doctor, would you prescribe an unapproved treatment to save your patient's life?
13:35
SPEAKER_00: Well, if you don't, you lose your license, you might go to jail.
13:38
SPEAKER_00: If you do, you might lose your license, you might go to jail.
13:41
SPEAKER_00: Your career's over.
13:42
SPEAKER_00: If you don't, well, the patient dies.
13:44
SPEAKER_00: Some doctors will say no, they'll follow the rules all the way to the end, because that's their purpose, that's their mantra, and they'll watch their patients die like they probably have the entire time.
13:54
SPEAKER_00: But some doctors, yeah, they'll say yes, but then they've become criminals to save a life.
14:00
SPEAKER_00: What doctor do you want when it's your diagnosis?
14:04
SPEAKER_00: Here's the second month.
14:05
SPEAKER_00: This all moves so quickly.
14:06
SPEAKER_00: The political firestorm.
14:08
SPEAKER_00: So Congress is going to get involved, of course.
14:10
SPEAKER_00: Of course they do.
14:11
SPEAKER_00: One side says this is proof that we need FDA to repel and cut the red tape.
14:16
SPEAKER_00: Bureaucracy is killing people, so let's deregulate now.
14:21
SPEAKER_00: On the other side, they say we can't rush unsafe treatments.
14:25
SPEAKER_00: Those regulations exist because of foul domide babies and killer drugs.
14:33
SPEAKER_00: We need caution.
14:34
SPEAKER_00: Sorry about slaughtering that word, but both sides have a point.
14:37
SPEAKER_00: Both sides are using this to score political points.
14:40
SPEAKER_00: Nothing, neither side is purely right or wrong.
14:44
SPEAKER_00: Is there a way to have both speed and safety?
14:47
SPEAKER_00: Or do we always have to choose?
14:49
SPEAKER_00: Has it ever been proven that regulation actually is better or worse?
14:53
SPEAKER_00: Depends on the situation, I guess.
14:56
SPEAKER_00: Here's the cynical question.
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SPEAKER_00: Would this be approved faster or slower, depending on which party, political party, is in the White House?
15:03
SPEAKER_00: Should life-saving medicine be subject to politics at all?
15:08
SPEAKER_00: Here's the third month, the manufacturing crisis.
15:11
SPEAKER_00: Let's say the FDA caves to public pressure.
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SPEAKER_00: Emergency youth authorization granted.
15:17
SPEAKER_00: Now what?
15:18
SPEAKER_00: Well, you just can't whip this up in a kitchen.
15:20
SPEAKER_00: It's a complex biological treatment.
15:22
SPEAKER_00: Let's say that is that particular avenue for a hypothetical situation here.
15:26
SPEAKER_00: It requires specialized manufacturing facilities, trained technicians, quality, quality control, sterile environments, maybe 20 facilities in the world who can make this.
15:36
SPEAKER_00: They're all currently making other drugs.
15:38
SPEAKER_00: So the question then is: do we stop making insulin to provide for cancer cures?
15:43
SPEAKER_00: Diabetics die without insulin.
15:45
SPEAKER_00: Cancer patients die without the cure.
15:48
SPEAKER_00: How do we choose?
15:49
SPEAKER_00: Here's a bigger problem.
15:50
SPEAKER_00: So those 20 facilities, most of them are in China and India, not here.
15:54
SPEAKER_00: And whether they're friendly to us or not, that could pose a problem.
15:58
SPEAKER_00: What happens when China decides to keep all the doses for their patients first?
16:02
SPEAKER_00: Well, month six, the price tag.
16:04
SPEAKER_00: So the cure now being manufactured slowly, but it does exist, and now someone has to decide what it costs.
16:11
SPEAKER_00: What should a cancer cure cost?
16:13
SPEAKER_00: If a company making it spent billions on facilities, they need to pay workers, they need to make a profit, or they can't make more, that's how capitalism works.
16:23
SPEAKER_00: But this is also, it's a cure for cancer.
16:27
SPEAKER_00: Should anyone be allowed to profit from it?
16:29
SPEAKER_00: What if they charge half a million dollars per treatment,$500,000?
16:34
SPEAKER_00: Insurance might cover it eventually.
16:36
SPEAKER_00: But what about the uninsured?
16:37
SPEAKER_00: What about people in poor countries?
16:38
SPEAKER_00: What about your neighbor who works at the gas station?
16:41
SPEAKER_00: I mean, this goes on and on.
16:42
SPEAKER_00: Does the cure for cancer become something only the wealthy can afford?
16:46
SPEAKER_00: Here's the uncomfortable mirror.
16:49
SPEAKER_00: Would you pay$500,000 to save your own life?
16:52
SPEAKER_00: Would you go into debt for the rest of your life for this?
16:54
SPEAKER_00: Would you bankrupt your family?
16:56
SPEAKER_00: Is your life worth$500,000?
16:59
SPEAKER_00: Is anybody's life worth that price?
17:01
SPEAKER_00: Of course, I think we all believe we ours is, and those closest to us absolutely.
17:07
SPEAKER_00: But these are all questions that could come up.
17:09
SPEAKER_00: Year one, the lawsuits.
17:10
SPEAKER_00: We're in the first year now.
17:12
SPEAKER_00: We're done.
17:12
SPEAKER_00: The cure is working, cancer rates are plummeting.
17:15
SPEAKER_00: It is a miracle.
17:16
SPEAKER_00: Then the lawsuits start.
17:17
SPEAKER_00: Remember that 1% fatal reaction I mentioned?
17:20
SPEAKER_00: It takes a while to roll down.
17:22
SPEAKER_00: But now that's real.
17:23
SPEAKER_00: Some people have generic variations that made the cure, uh genetic variations that make the cure deadly for them.
17:31
SPEAKER_00: A thousand people are dead who would still be alive if they just went through the chemotherapy type of cancer cure instead.
17:38
SPEAKER_00: So their families, well, they're going to sue, manufacture, FDA is approving it way too fast.
17:42
SPEAKER_00: Doctors who prescribed it, you got all those people on the list.
17:46
SPEAKER_00: Who's responsible when a cure kills some people while saving millions?
17:51
SPEAKER_00: The math says it's a win.
17:52
SPEAKER_00: Millions saved versus thousands lost.
17:55
SPEAKER_00: But you can't tell a grieving widow that her husband's death was statistically acceptable.
18:01
SPEAKER_00: Is there such a thing as an acceptable death toll for a miracle cure?
18:06
SPEAKER_00: Second year, workforce collapse.
18:08
SPEAKER_00: Here's something nobody really mentions when this stuff comes up.
18:12
SPEAKER_00: Cancer treatments, a$200 billion industry, employs hundreds of thousands of people, oncologists, oncology nurses, radiation technicians, chemotherapy pharmacists, researchers, social workers, hospice care workers, end-of-life staff, and people.
18:29
SPEAKER_00: What happens to them?
18:31
SPEAKER_00: When we cure a disease, what do we owe the people who built their careers around treating it?
18:37
SPEAKER_00: Imagine you're 55 years old, you've been an oncology nurse for 30 years.
18:41
SPEAKER_00: That's your calling, your identity.
18:42
SPEAKER_00: You've held the hands of dying patients, and now your job doesn't exist anymore.
18:48
SPEAKER_00: Are you happy that cancer is cured?
18:51
SPEAKER_00: Of course you are.
18:52
SPEAKER_00: But are you terrified about your mortgage?
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SPEAKER_00: Also, yes.
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SPEAKER_00: Can both things be true at the same time?
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SPEAKER_00: Case in point.
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SPEAKER_00: Year three, the unexpected consequences.
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SPEAKER_00: So cancer is now rare.
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SPEAKER_00: The cure works.
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SPEAKER_00: Humanity has achieved something incredible.
19:09
SPEAKER_00: And then the problems nobody predicted start to emerge.
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SPEAKER_00: What happens when a society of people stop dying of cancer?
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SPEAKER_00: Think about Social Security, pension funds, Medicare, life insurance, actuarial tables.
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SPEAKER_00: All those systems are built on the assumption that we ain't gonna make it all the way, or we're gonna end at a certain point, that a certain number of people are gonna die at certain ages.
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SPEAKER_00: But if cancer drops by 90%, people live a lot longer.
19:36
SPEAKER_00: That's wonderful for those people.
19:38
SPEAKER_00: Well, the people that survived it, their families too.
19:41
SPEAKER_00: But what about Social Security running out of money faster, nursing homes being overwhelmed, the job market when nobody retires, inheritance being delayed by decades?
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SPEAKER_00: Did we just create a new set of problems by solving an old one?
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, do we really have to check out?
19:54
SPEAKER_00: Is that really the point?
19:56
SPEAKER_00: The big question, so here we are.
19:58
SPEAKER_00: We started with a simple premise AI cures cancer tomorrow, and we wander through a maze of mess, moral dilemmas.
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SPEAKER_00: Let me leave you with the questions I want you to take with you.
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SPEAKER_00: On systems.
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SPEAKER_00: Is our medical approval system designed to protect people or protect itself?
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SPEAKER_00: Can capitalism and life-saving medicine coexist ethically?
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SPEAKER_00: Should some things be too important to be owned, patented, or profited from?
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SPEAKER_00: And on human nature, what's your first instinct to doubt good news?
20:31
SPEAKER_00: Why would you break the law to save your family?
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SPEAKER_00: Would you?
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SPEAKER_00: Are you willing to accept risks for others that you wouldn't accept for yourself?
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SPEAKER_00: Now, everything we look at, if you have a whole bunch of people telling you something's true, those are all basically opinions that if you work your life from that vantage point and think that everybody, even if they say they're telling you a fact, that could be an opinion in a way.
20:51
SPEAKER_00: Usually you gather enough of the data and then you can make a pretty educated guess.
20:57
SPEAKER_00: But on the future, when AI solves more problems like this, are we ready?
21:02
SPEAKER_00: Who should control the cures that AI creates?
21:06
SPEAKER_00: Is it possible that the cure for cancer has already been found?
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SPEAKER_00: Of course, that was at the beginning.
21:10
SPEAKER_00: And it's stuck somewhere in the system, some at some place.
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SPEAKER_00: Here's what I believe.
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SPEAKER_00: I believe AI will cure cancer.
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SPEAKER_00: It's probably going to cure everything.
21:19
SPEAKER_00: How much of that's going to be released into the world?
21:22
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
21:23
SPEAKER_00: It's probably not going to happen tomorrow.
21:25
SPEAKER_00: Maybe soon.
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SPEAKER_00: Probably, I'm sure within our lifetimes.
21:28
SPEAKER_00: Probably within this decade, and probably within these next three years, I would guess.
21:34
SPEAKER_00: And I would believe the biggest obstacle isn't going to be the science.
21:37
SPEAKER_00: It's going to be us humans, our systems, our fears, our greed, our caution, our bureaucracies, our lawsuits, our politics.
21:46
SPEAKER_00: The cure will exist, and then we're going to spend years arguing about who gets it, who pays for it, who's responsible when it goes wrong, and whether we can really trust it.
21:54
SPEAKER_00: That's the tragedy hiding inside that kind of a miracle.
21:59
SPEAKER_00: And that's why conversations like this matter.
22:02
SPEAKER_00: Because the more we think about these questions now, the faster we can move when that day actually comes.
22:09
SPEAKER_00: I want everybody to answer this honestly.
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SPEAKER_00: If AI announced a verified cure for cancer tomorrow, what's that first emotion you would feel?
22:21
SPEAKER_00: Not the emotion you think you should feel, but the one you'd actually feel.
22:26
SPEAKER_00: Hope, relief, skepticism, fear, anger that it took this long?
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SPEAKER_00: Your answer tells you something important about yourself and also about all of us.
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SPEAKER_00: This is my frontier.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm Connor MacIver, AI with honor, and these questions uh keep me up at night.
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SPEAKER_00: So hopefully they'll let you know that somebody's thinking about them.
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SPEAKER_00: Be well, and thanks for watching.