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The Next Miracle Drug Might Already Be in Your Medicine Cabinet
['Derek Thompson']
Derek Thompson
The drug failed.
Decades later, a diabetes drug called semaglutide showed another curious side effect: patients lost a ton of weight.
Thousands of drugs, both failed and approved, sit in trial data that almost nobody reads twice.
Medicine is at the center of almost every optimistic and even utopian vision of how AI could change the world.
Public data is a public good; no one can be prevented from using it, and its benefits accrue widely.