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Posted on 05/21/2026 8:37:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Whenever you read about artificial intelligence, you hear the same sweeping promises. Commentators and industry leaders speak of breakthroughs that always seem just over the horizon. AI will revolutionize science, unlock new materials, transform industries, and reshape nearly every facet of life.
In regards to medicine, we are told that AI will one day cure cancer, eliminate Alzheimer’s, and solve diseases that have plagued humanity for generations. Even many AI critics concede these points. They warn about the risks, but still acknowledge the extraordinary potential.
And yet, despite this widespread belief in what AI could become, public sentiment is moving in the opposite direction. Skepticism is growing. Distrust is rising. And lawmakers are increasingly responding with calls for sweeping restrictions.
AI industry leaders are living on borrowed time, and they need to act boldly if they want to earn the public’s trust.
The Public Is Souring on AI
The side of AI the public sees looks nothing like those promises. Instead, they're inundated with what many have started calling “AI slop.” Endless streams of AI-generated images, videos, and articles that are often obviously artificial. Social media feeds are filled with this content. Sure, it can be fun and entertaining to watch Mr. Rogers wrestling Bob Barker in a vintage WrestleMania setting. But this content is novel for a moment, then quickly disposable.
At the same time, they are told that building this future requires enormous resources. Massive data centers. Vast amounts of energy. Water used to cool processing systems. The scale of investment is staggering.
Yes, tools like ChatGPT and Grok can help draft emails or answer questions more efficiently. But even these benefits are often viewed through a lens of concern.
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AI doesn’t “think.” It processes probabilities of correlations.
An average adult has more than 30 trillion cells. Some small % are going wrong in one way or another all of the time. In most cases the cell defect results in apoptosis (it just dies) or the immune system recognizes the bad cell and destroys it. The problem with cancer cells is the defect does not result in apoptosis or immune attack. Our current treatment methods are better than bloodletting but still barbaric. We give the patient high doses of toxic chemicals since cancer cells grow quickly and will hopefully absorb the toxins quicker than normal cells and die befire we damage too many normal cells. We also use radiation concentrated on or in (seeds) the cancer hoping the dose is high enough in the cancer to kill most of it and not so high elsewhere that we kill too many normal cells. Think of cancer as an immune system defect (can’t recognize this particular batch of bad cells). Two newer treatments, CAR-T and immune checkpoint inhibitors show a great deal of promise since they actually address the problem. They are still crude since we haven’t refined the technique enough to recognize only specific enough cancer cell surface markers but that will come in time.
That’s the thing about using AI you have to know enough of the basics to know when its feeding you BS.
That’s the problem with education today. The purpose of education is to develop a good “BS Meter”, and that’s not happening.
Okay I’m going to tell my story after reading this article which is about a year ago I was told by my vet and my dog had Mast cancer hit a tumor on his back right leg about the size of a walnut in the show so she pretty much said even if you get it operated on and chemo it’ll still probably take him out and he being 10 years old really didn’t make a lot of sense to hasten his death and she was recommending palliative care
so that being the case I went on to rock and started researching as much as I could about mast cancer on dogs and a first started with the dog food which I ended up making myself and buying raw dog food online I changed all his supplements I never had given him any really to speak of but he was put on calcium and vitamin E hemp oil four different mushroom powders broccoli powder calcium I also gave him Ivermectin and radically changed his diet
I did this all with the care of the vet it did slow down the mass growth but it got to the size of what I would say is the half of an orange at this point after researching on grock there was a cancer treatment tablet called Palladia which I found the best price in the United States to be on chewy.com but I also found it on an international Website which I think is Canadian which I also found to be a grok and I was able to buy 30 tablets for 400 bucks so as of now the tumor is totally gone and I spent hours and hours and hours on grok to find out all this information which I would say he’s healthier now than he was a year ago he’s sort of a pain actually because he’s like a puppy again
Agree!!!!!
What if we don’t like the answer? But I agree this is a prime opportunity to get detailed research done.
We are in the early days of AI. It may one day be the tool that leads to cures for cancer. The problem with medicine currently is the people running it for the most part are in it for the money & cures don’t make as much money as long term treatments of symptoms....
precisely. the biggest shills for AI seem to be the tech bro oligarchs. where is the benefit to the average person? - beyond just occasional giggles and hobbyist tooling?
“”public sentiment is moving in the opposite direction. Skepticism is growing. Distrust is rising.””
GOOD! I hate being the only dissenter - glad I have company.
Or it will be used to stop hair loss and prolong erections.
Good post.
The undisputed heavy weight champion of the world for curing cancer is:
FASTING
Your welcome.
AI could cure your cancer, but you’ll end up with 17 fingers and a watch always stuck at 10:10.
I can’t even get a straight answer from Bing search engine. I ask questions because I WANT to know the answer - WHY is XXX not playing with the Braves tonight - May XX? The answer comes back - XXX IS playing tonight... I can see for myself that it’s not true...More often than not, I wait until morning to read online about the game and get the real answer.
All the s*** that people wanted to have free time to do at leisure is being done with AI. It’s NOT for getting things done, fixing stuff etc... It’s entirely for accumulating insane quantities of data for predictive social management use and sales.
I doubt anyone on FR has any regard for Bernie Sanders (including myself) but he has been sounding the alarm on the Senate floor about the dangers of AI - who benefits and why...and faults the government for not paying attention...
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We’ll be clean when their work is done
We’ll be eternally free yes and eternally young
—Donald Fagen, “I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)”
The people who fear AI are mostly people who don’t use it or experience its personal benefits in their lives. It would be hard for me to list all the ways AI has improved my life, but a few include: screenwriting and video production, Legal contract analysis, medical analysis, technical research, and fully self-driving cars. My son and daughter are also deeply involved with AI research and deployment, both academically and in software system production.
As for not curing cancer, I would refer readers to this video on the MAMMAL AI model that has analyzed existing already approved cancer drugs and identified other cancers that could be cured by them, leading to very promising clinical trials at a fraction of the cost of the existing RCT process.
It won’t happen because then the “health” industry can’t make money off it.
Eat, exercise, reduce stress, and sleep like you have cancer.
AI will “discover” that tobacco and vaping are the #1 cause of cancer. AI will cure cancer by educating us to this amazing breakthru.
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