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Behnam Neyshabur warns that frontier AI labs are declining to support external scientific research on cancer and Alzheimer's

The trend signals a shift toward tighter external research controls

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Behnam Neyshabur@bneyshabur

Working on AI for cancer? Sorry, I can't help you.

Working on AI for Alzheimer's Disease? Sorry, I'm becoming a bit dumb when it comes to the AI part of it.

Why don't everyone stop trying to do AI for Science & Tech? We can do it all gradually. You just have to be patient.

Behnam Neyshabur@bneyshabur

This marks the beginning of a significant phase transition in the behavior of frontier AI labs and their relationship with the rest of the world 🧵

6:54 PM · Jun 9, 2026 · 34.3K Views
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Many users criticized Frontier AI Labs for quietly restricting assistance on scientific research like Alzheimer's and EEG work, calling the blocks tone-deaf, time-wasting, and counterproductive to saving lives.

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@bneyshabur We are too busy working in the lab and delivering cures to the clinic today to slow down for AI to catch up. 😀

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T Ay.@ayedtay

@bneyshabur >Working on AI for Alzheimer's Disease? here is a fake believable solution that will make you lose an entire day of work without you noticing

this is what they're actually doing

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Behnam Neyshabur@bneyshabur

Working on AI for cancer? Sorry, I can't help you.

Working on AI for Alzheimer's Disease? Sorry, I'm becoming a bit dumb when it comes to the AI part of it.

Why don't everyone stop trying to do AI for Science & Tech? We can do it all gradually. You just have to be patient.

Behnam Neyshabur@bneyshabur

This marks the beginning of a significant phase transition in the behavior of frontier AI labs and their relationship with the rest of the world 🧵

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Maziyar PANAHI@MaziyarPanahi

@bneyshabur @vincentweisser It’s just an unfortunate thing for us in Health and Life Sciences!

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Billy Lau@billytcl

@bneyshabur They’re actively endorsing enshittification. I haven’t seen a product release be bungled up so badly and be so tone deaf in years.

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π@pientropy

@bneyshabur was this a core reason for why you left?

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Ashwinee Panda@PandaAshwinee

@bneyshabur does it feel good to be right or bad to be right? :)

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@bneyshabur and it doesn't even say sorry. just quietly sandbagging in the background

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dilettante101@dilettante34308

@bneyshabur In defense of Anthropic, there are widespread and realistic concerns regarding the potential weaponization of therapies for Alzheimer disease 🙄

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Ack@akhileshlnair

@bneyshabur The sad part is the fact that they’re making the model dumber.

Yes, let’s give lower quality info when it comes to saving lives. Let’s keep the high quality info for making garbage websites and born-to-fail startups.

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Amin 阿敏@Shoier__

@bneyshabur It refuses to work on EEG or EMG. Super annoying.

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Uday Bhaskar@BhaskarSteve

@bneyshabur Glad you're openly sharing your thoughts Behnam. Respect. Rooting for Mirendil.

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Humble Billionaire@humblebillionz

@bneyshabur I wonder if Anthropic has any contracts with a Pharmaceutical company who will only use Anthropic if it throttles the competition?

Absurd evil -> making AI the ultimate monopolisitic tool -> competition becomes illegal.

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chair@tablefourthree

@bneyshabur Anthropic is creating a trust access program to access Mythos for biomedical research.

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Bittu Kumar@talkwithBittu

@bneyshabur Yeah! We forgot the word "Patient."

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Attas@TxRecon1

Exactly. Look what AI is doing for attorneys. It's ruining careers becuse attorneys are getting busted by the courts for using AI to do the attorneys' jobs, and the AI is completely making things up that sounds very lawyerly, but are completely fabricated. Attorneys are literally committing fraud on the Court for using AI.

No one's been disbarred yet, but attorneys have been severely sanctioned. It's getting to be a real problem.

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