alt Hacker NewsChina can run drug trials much faster than in the West - [0]
Why do you think the status quo is optimal that can’t be accelerated and done at lower cost? Of course AI can’t do trials on its own.
[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-29/china-s-s...
No, but issue with status quo is the bureaucracy and politics.
As noted in the article, it's cheaper and faster in China because regulations appear to be laxer and it's possibly resulted in deaths.
Whether or not that's acceptable is political discussion, not an AI one.