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by k_sh 2652 days ago
AI doesn't solve the underlying issue that made ketamine depression treatment expensive: intellectual property rights on a particular molecule.

If a company achieved AI that can identify effective alternatives, why wouldn't they just acquire the patents for all of those alternatives and prop up all the prices?

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There will be AIs to obscure other AIs work and AIs to clarify the obscured work. The rat race will never end