That's what the trials and all are for.
Who cares about understanding it, in the face of efficacy?
I want to understand everything; I think AI will help that happen, not hinder it.
All the arguments about the future mathematicians are imagined, and emotional.
It makes me think of the book Finite and Infinite Games. It provides a perspective that work is just one role that we _choose_ to assume in our life. Realizing that we can choose other roles and move in and out of them freely has helped me alot with big changes (career and otherwise) in my life.
Even if you don't like, at this moment, AI cannot replace mathematicians.
He is not talking about a cure that works and that no one understands, he is talking about an AI making its way out of the trial just to get to phase 3...
If AI found a way to exploit clinical trial design, it would be noticed and the errors corrected. In fact, that would be a major win because it would probably lead to improved clinical trial designs.
Do you think so? So far, AI is gaming lots of things, and I don't see much fixing in the processes.
I suppose if we closed all the loops and the entire end-to-end process was completely automated, it wouldn't be surprising if we failed to notice.
If we followed the precautionary principle and waited until we understood everything there is to know about every drug on the shelf, a lot of people now living would be dead.