PYMNTS.com March 14, 2025

The head of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) believes that artificial intelligence (AI) can accelerate medical research such that it would be possible within 10 to 20 years to stop a disease very early on in its tracks.

AI can “put us in a world where we aren’t just trying to treat disease when it’s out of control. We’re actually preventing it at the earliest stages,” said Priscilla Chan, who leads the philanthropic organization founded by her husband, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and herself. She detailed that vision during a presentation Thursday (March 13) at SXSW 2025.

The mechanism for this future is a “virtual cell” model that could revolutionize how scientists understand human biology and develop treatments for all...

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