{"slug": "fidji-simo-says-she-believes-ai-can-cure-all-diseases-agreeing-with-anthropic", "title": "Fidji Simo says she believes AI can 'cure all diseases,' agreeing with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei", "summary": "Fidji Simo, former OpenAI executive and cofounder of biomedical startup ChronicleBio, said in an X post on Monday that she believes AI can eventually cure all diseases, but smarter models alone won't get there. Simo agreed with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's point that AI companies need to deliver concrete medical breakthroughs, and she emphasized that the 'bigger bottleneck' is having the right biological data, not model intelligence alone.", "body_md": "[Fidji Simo](https://www.businessinsider.com/fidji-simo-openai-product-research-profitability-profile-2026-3), the former OpenAI executive who cofounded the biomedical startup ChronicleBio, said she believes AI can eventually cure all diseases, but smarter models alone won't get us there.\n\nIn an X post on Monday, Simo responded to [Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei](https://www.businessinsider.com/dario-amodei), who wrote over the weekend that AI companies need to deliver concrete breakthroughs to win over a skeptical public.\n\n\"I disagree with Dario on most things, but this is spot on: 'At this point, saying that AI will cure cancer is more a cliché than it is inspiring, and most people think it is deceptive. The thing that will work is actually curing cancer.''' Simo wrote, quoting Amodei's post.\n\n[Amodei's comments](https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-ai-public-opinion-cure-cancer-2026-8) were part of a broader defense of Anthropic's outlook on AI. On Saturday, he pushed back on the idea that he has been too pessimistic about the technology's potential benefits. He said the industry has contributed to public skepticism because it has made sweeping promises without delivering on them.\n\nSimo agreed with Amodei's point on delivering on medical breakthroughs and said the problem is that people often draw a straight line from intelligent AI models to cures without accounting for the infrastructure needed in between.\n\nShe said the \"bigger bottleneck\" is having the \"right biological data,\" and that AI can't reason its way to cures without the data needed to understand a particular disease.\n\n\"Ironically, that's why I'm most bullish on AI making dramatic progress in cancer first: decades of investment have produced extraordinary datasets across genomics, pathology, imaging, clinical outcomes, and more,\" she wrote.\n\nFor more complex chronic diseases, she said, much of that infrastructure doesn't exist.\n\nSimo's work with ChronicleBio is aimed at those issues. In August 2025, around the same time she joined OpenAI as its CEO of Applications, Simo cofounded the biotech company, which is building datasets to better understand complex chronic conditions.\n\nSimo has also spoken about living with [postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome](https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-pots-fidji-simo-openai-symptons-treatment-diagnosis), or POTS, a chronic condition that can be difficult to diagnose and treat.\n\nIn July, Simo announced she was stepping down from her full-time role at OpenAI to focus on her recovery after taking medical leave.\n\n\"Model intelligence and biological infrastructure are going to have to scale together,\" Simo wrote on Monday. \"I really do believe AI can cure all diseases but only if we build the infrastructure to translate intelligence into cures at the same pace that models improve.\"\n\nSimo did not immediately return a request for comment.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fidji-simo-says-she-believes-ai-can-cure-all-diseases-agreeing-with-anthropic", "canonical_source": "https://www.businessinsider.com/fidji-simo-ai-curing-diseases-cancer-pots-dario-amodei-2026-8", "published_at": "2026-08-17 22:28:42+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-17 22:41:46.523910+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Fidji Simo", "OpenAI", "ChronicleBio", "Dario Amodei", "Anthropic"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fidji-simo-says-she-believes-ai-can-cure-all-diseases-agreeing-with-anthropic", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fidji-simo-says-she-believes-ai-can-cure-all-diseases-agreeing-with-anthropic.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fidji-simo-says-she-believes-ai-can-cure-all-diseases-agreeing-with-anthropic.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/fidji-simo-says-she-believes-ai-can-cure-all-diseases-agreeing-with-anthropic.jsonld"}}