Anthropic will develop its own drugs in-house to test and refine its Claude Science laboratory AI model

Anthropic wants to make its own drugs with help from Claude.

Claude Science is meant to do for lab research what Claude Code did for programming.

Drug discovery is messier, because molecules fail when biology, chemistry, safety, or dosing breaks.

Anthropic wants its researchers to feel those failures directly while shaping the product.

The first programs will target neglected diseases, including rare disorders and some tropical conditions.

These areas often have clearer biology but weaker commercial incentives than common diseases.

Many rare genetic disorders start with one broken gene, giving AI a cleaner target.

Common conditions usually involve many genes, tissues, histories, and environments interacting at once.

That difference makes early rare-disease work a harder business, but a clearer testbed.

Anthropic also avoids competing with pharma customers by choosing overlooked programs.

Anthropic already works closely with major drugmakers, so it understands where researchers get stuck.

Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan joining the board gives those product decisions direct pharma-level pressure.

Anthropic bought Coefficient Bio and hired AlphaFold researcher John Jumper, so this is not a side experiment. Shows how seriously Anthropic is treating biology.

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On the other hand I'm afraid that very soon all AI-behemoths are going to limit the availability of their mostly advanced AI models to the wide public and also all academic scientists and other biotech companies,

just because they want to become the best and first ones in the competition of finding the first groundbreaking longevity drug.

Just look around, what is happening in the world right now, Bryan.

Your biggest strength in business has been always your very good "seventh sense" in analyzing and predicting all trends.

Can't you see it coming that the increasing competition among our wealthiest billionaires and biggest AI-powers will soon divide our entire world,

and also limit the natural development of humanity's science (because of drained public AI models)

just because everybody wants to win the longevity race, and establish their leading power in the longevity space?

Doesn't it seem to your sensitive and humanitarian soul, that our entire world is heading already in a "too mad" direction, @bryan_johnson?

And meanwhile all this happens, none of our most powerful and most influental billionaires and politicians are noticing that our entire civilization is running towards our collective extinction,

while everybody is chasing individual wealth and individual longevity,

instead of trying to stop the climate crisis with joint efforts.

i thought the same as you before, but none of these stand. people will still die. you can't stop death. its entropy. the point is much more than that.. (i) bio hacking our bodies to the point that we can control how healthy we are and stop diseases (this leads to point ii) right now, science can only stop aging for 3 months out of 12 months. we are in a deficit of 9 months every year. once we reach the technological level to stop aging (and reverse aging which is also possible because cells literally store the data in "checkpoints" for our state in a specific age), we find the answers to all your worries. (ii) about 10% of the global GDP is spent in healthcare. overpopulation wouldn't even be a problem if we free up that much money... imagine the technological achievements we can do with that money. we can reach kardashev 1 if we use most of that money for scientific research & development.

there is literally no way and logical and financial reason to keep that technology only for the elites. sure, it will be expensive at first, just like every new technology (history shows), but it's inevitable that it will become affordable very quickly.

if we stop aging, we stop disease, we drastically decrease healthcare spending by more than 95%.

we never needed phones.. until we did.. we never needed nuclear powerplants, green energy.. until we did. we never needed any of this wehave today.. until we did. we never needed to stop aging.. until we will..

thats a deep philosophical question you'll have to ask @elonmusk , i can't answer that. as i said, immortality is impossible due to entropy. exploring everything will take thousands of years, or even 100,000+ years. we can't know if we will still be humans by then. or something as a result of humans and what we left for that "something". my question is.. what if we give up and just live on earth like we always have for thousands of years? we will inevitably go extinct. the point of life is survival whether you like it or not, thats exactly what we are wired to do, and thats exactly what we are doing, and you do daily. its just a 4d version of it disguised in a utopian facemask that looks unrealistic, dangerous, and useless to most people, kinda like how planes did.