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Medical AI isn't the bottleneck to medical progress | Mechanize Inc.

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The real bottleneck to medical progress isn't medical AI research. It's the size of the global economy supporting it.

Medical AI isn't the bottleneck to medical progress | Mechanize, Inc. Medical AI isn't the bottleneck to medical progress Matthew Barnett, Tamay Besiroglu, Ege Erdil August 4, 2025 Conventional wisdom in the AI field suggests that to advance medical progress, we should focus on applying AI directly to the medical field. People propose using AI to design new proteins, perform biological research, or identify disease targets from patient genomics. They suggest this is what will unlock the most gains to human health. We disagree. In our view, the biggest barrier to medical progress right now has

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