Ray Kurzweil, always a tech optimist, believes that vaccine development can be massively improved with advances in AI (to identify drug candidates) and biotechnology (to allow us to run virtual human trials.) Is he right? I certainly wouldn’t dismiss it, and we’re certainly headed that way.

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