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The medical industry makes medicines very expensive because they include the enormous costs of research. If AI makes research much cheaper, then medicines will get cheaper too.

I'm also against absolutely anyone who asks me "whose side I'm on" as part of an argument.

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Just like when the medical industry made insulin cheap because it’s been around forever and costs nothing to manufacture.
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Insulin is very cheap in countries with normal health insurance systems (everywhere except the US).
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> I'm sorry, do you understand how the medical industry works?

Yes, I actually work in the medical industry. There is no hiding the cure for cancer.

> Or else how do you explain Danyelza? Used to treat neuroblastoma, costs upwards of $1m per year. Do you have any proof that this will be different?

Oh, you are American. Let me tell you a secret: the problems of your healthcare insurance system are not a worldwide phenomenon, nor an immutable fact of this universe. Perhaps the cure for cancer, if expensive, will not be easily available to the poorest Americans, at least initially (the cost will come down sooner or later). But that is a very different claim from "they'd never give it to you".

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> Yes, I actually work in the medical industry. There is no hiding the cure for cancer.

There's no need to hide anything, it's just pay-walled (and it's not an hypothesis, most human beings on this planets cannot afford the SotA treatments for their cancer today).

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