The Times Tech Podcast

LabGenius' James Field: "The dawn of super-humans"

The Times Tech Podcast


The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on James Field, founder of LabGenius, to talk about taking humans out of drug discovery (2:15), working in a biscuit factory (4:20), how artificial intelligence can revolutionise research (6:25), the inevitability of “designing humans” (8:10), the moral quandaries that generates (10:25), the dramatic improvements in AI (13:35), breaking free of human cognition (15:35), what happens to the human race when we live longer and healthier (16:00), and discovering and testing drugs autonomously (17:55).




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