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Posted on 09/01/2025 11:33:15 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A research group funded by tech billionaire Larry Ellison is set to invest £118 million ($169.6 million) in applying AI to vaccine research with the UK's Oxford University.
Oxford Vaccine Group is leading the project to study the human immune system's response to serious bacterial infections and antibiotic resistance, targeting diseases including Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, and E. coli.
Led by Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, who ran the trials for COVID-19 vaccines, the project plans to employ so-called human challenge models – which expose human volunteers to bacteria under controlled conditions – then apply modern immunology and AI tools to pinpoint the immune responses that predict protection.
"This program addresses one of the most urgent problems in infectious disease by helping us to understand immunity more deeply to develop innovative vaccines against deadly diseases that have so far evaded our attempts at prevention," Pollard said.
"By combining advanced immunology with artificial intelligence, and using human challenge models to study diseases, CoI-AI [Correlates of Immunity-Artificial Intelligence] will provide the tools we need to tackle serious infections and reduce the growing threat of antibiotic resistance. This is a new frontier in vaccine science."
Established in 2023, the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) aims to open its Oxford campus in 2027 following an investment of around £1 billion. It is set to provide research labs and computing capacity supported by Oracle, which Ellison helped found. In December 2024, the University of Oxford and the EIT launched their strategic alliance.
Ellison has long voiced an interest in healthcare. During the keynote of Oracle's conference in 2022, he said: "If we're not careful… we're gonna bankrupt Western civilization unless we find a more efficient way of providing healthcare to everybody."
In 2020, Ellison is said to have contributed to the early US response to the COVID-19 pandemic during President Donald Trump's first term.
Ellison continues to be close to US government projects, and remains a contributor to the $500 billion Stargate project, which aims to build a network of AI datacenters around the globe.
However, the current US administration has attracted criticism for its approach to vaccines. In August, the US Department of Health and Human Services said it planned to cancel $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccines, which promise to protect against viruses that cause flu and COVID-19.
Speaking to the Financial Times, Oxford Vaccine Group's Pollard said there was "huge concern" that the debate on vaccines in the US was threatening vaccines that protect millions of children's lives.
"One of the greatest tools ever is being undermined by poor science and misinformation," he told the publication. ®
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This guy really wants to compete with Bill Gates.
No matter how bad ‘AI’ gets, I’m not taking a shot to prevent it.
That sounds so very familiar, given these last one hundred years.
Cancer vaccine will most likely kill cancer and the HOST.
You first Larry!
Nope. NFM.
If we all become cyborgs running Microsoft OSes we’ll never have to worry about viruses again.
/s
I’ll need a second opinion.
“A.I., Must die.
No matter what good it could be used for,
Nasty People will use it to do terrible things.”
When you outlaw AI, only the bad guys will have AI.
“Now if by “vaccine”, you mean gene altering disposition to those injected”
Never heard of a gene altering vaccine.
mRNA shots.
It's like outlawing nuclear weapons.
“mRNA shots.”
Dr. Paul Offit explains why it’s not possible for mRNA vaccines to alter a person’s DNA.
https://youtu.be/IGKg9rj9W1s?feature=shared
“When you outlaw AI, only the bad guys will have AI.”
AI beats the shit out of disinformation agents.
That’s why they hate it and that’s why I love it.
I hate it because it gobbles up so much power.
There is no improvement in sight energy-wise. Jevons paradox applies here as well.
I have looked at potential computing breakthroughs such “reversible computing”.
No chance in hell that this will change anything because it works only at very low clock speeds. As far as I know, Moore’s law has come to an end.
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