AI Needs to Cure Cancer: If AI is as powerful as its creators claim, it needs to start solving problems that people care about.

American Thinker ^ | 05/21/2026 | Donald Kendal |

[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.

And for most people, the return on that investment feels underwhelming.

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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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: ai; cancer; luddites; sezyou

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Their programs can take all the information on a certain type of cancer and compile it.

That would be useful.

The problem is that the data is often corrupted.

When researchers falsify their data and those results are fed in you are not going to get a good results.

[ronniesgal]

there’s no money in a cure for cancer.

[Reily]

Cancer is more of a condition then a disease in the traditional sense. Its not like say malaria. Lots of things rewrite the code and cause cancer.

[catnipman]

“AI Needs to Cure Cancer: If AI is as powerful as its creators claim, it needs to start solving problems that people care about.”

when AI invents a safe and reliable personal fusion reactor that costs $10,000 and can power an average home for 50 years without servicing, or a $100.00, 50 pound battery that i can buy at Walmart that holds 100,000 amp/hours and can be recharged in an hour and can be recharged 10,000 times before it dies, then i’ll be a believer that AI is truly intelligent ...

[Manuel OKelley]

Wiliam Makis and others are already curing many forms with Ivermectin and Fendazabole (sp?) combined with no carbs and fasting, there are other new treatments as well that appear to have great efficacy as well

[jroehl]

What a nice story!

[Honorary Serb]

AI won’t cure any form of cancer—or for that matter Alzheimer’s, ALS, etc.

Human researchers will!!

[Salman]

AI (by definition) is a program that can pass for human through a text interface. The definition deliberately bypasses any philosophical questions of what intelligence may be. Does it pass in casual typed conversation, yes or no?

It is artificial intelligence, not a superior intelligence capable of whatever it is you think ought to be done.

[Vaduz]

AI is a blessing for the ignorant stupid and DEI and other parasites.

Jobs found all you have to do is press the blinking button.

[suasponte137]

You just gave me an idea I haven’t thought of yet. Thank you.

I’m just gonna make a video of my boss farting while he’s carrying cancer though

[bobbo666]

Like Web2.0 and sustainability, AI is just another SiliconValley crapshoot intended to get taxpayer $$ into commie trash hands, so they can pass it on to the politicos who grant subsidies to their favorite AI-supporting outfit.

AI is, at best, an intern doing a first draft on something, anything. Real humans will have to pick amongst the possibles to find the workables.