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If you have something like this, how about you demonstrate a way to really help, and demonstrate (as opposed to claim) what this can do? Make a cheap vaccine against the new resistant forms of TBC, or if you truly want to impress, against HIV. DON'T get it approved at all, just publish how it would work, maybe with a simulation (so it can't be patented). This shouldn't even be so hard, it's just really hard to make money on either of those vaccines, as right 1st world countries have little need for them (HIV, perhaps, but vaccines don't make much money. A TBC vaccine, definitely doesn't make money), so you're not "getting in the way of business" doing that.

Why? AI's reputation would be greatly improved by saving a few 10s of millions of lives (per year, I might add). And either of those advances would do just that.

Oh, and another reason. Do either of these things and you'll have very rich businesses screaming to become your customer coming out of every hole. Guaranteed.

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