AI in drug discovery
Subject in Medicine
AI in drug discovery has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Moonshots with Peter Diamandis. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Alexander Wissner-GrossComputer scientist and founder of Reified, co-host of Moonshots
Wissner-Gross argues pharma executives are in denial and that biology is not harder than math, only harder to verify.
“Math is not easier. Math is actually in many ways harder to solve than biology. It's just that math solutions are easier to verify”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Jensen’s Departure, NVIDIA’s succession plan, AI doomer response, and Demis talks RSI | MOONSHOTS #311 (recorded live) (Nov 14, 2026) · Listen from 1:27:36
Wissner-Gross describes a grand bargain in which frontier labs solve disease in exchange for public and regulatory support.
“Solve all disease in return for which you get the data centers, you get the regulatory approvals, you get what you need”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Jensen’s Departure, NVIDIA’s succession plan, AI doomer response, and Demis talks RSI | MOONSHOTS #311 (recorded live) (Nov 14, 2026) · Listen from 1:23:36
Emad MostaqueFounder of Intelligent Internet and former CEO of Stability AI
Mostaque estimates AI can uncover core disease mechanisms within two to three years, though cures may take five to ten.
“I think two, three years for knocking down the core mechanisms is going to be very doable”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Jensen’s Departure, NVIDIA’s succession plan, AI doomer response, and Demis talks RSI | MOONSHOTS #311 (recorded live) (Nov 14, 2026) · Listen from 1:24:53
Podcasts
- Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · 1 episode
Episodes
Jensen’s Departure, NVIDIA’s succession plan, AI doomer response, and Demis talks RSI | MOONSHOTS #311 (recorded live)Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Nov 14, 2026 · 2 h 2 min
Peter Diamandis, Alex Wissner-Gross, Salim Ismail and Emad Mostaque discuss Jensen Huang's Nvidia resignation, AI takeover warnings, recursive self-improvement, Anthropic's office tools and AI-driven discovery.