He has promised to put the Americans on Mars and end the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. But Donald Trump’s most impactful move may be driving the world’s first cancer vaccine.
This week, amid a slew of executive orders, the new president announced a $ 500 billion venture he described as “the largest AI infrastructure project in history”.
The White House says the Stargate project will create tens of thousands of new jobs and usher in a new technological revolution.
But his biggest promise is finally producing cures for cancer , according to one of the AI bosses involved in the programme.
Larry Ellison, chief technology officer at computer software company Oracle, said the technology could use simple blood tests to scan tiny tumor cells, which neither humans nor current lab tests can detect.
In this way, patients with the earliest forms of the disease can be identified and treated before the cancer spreads.
He continued: “then beyond that, once we find the gene sequence of that cancer tumor, then you can vaccinate that person, create a vaccine for each individual person to vaccinate against that cancer, and you can make that mRNA vaccine robotically using AI in about 48 hours.
He described the cure for cancer as the’promise of the future’. Later in the press conference, Sam Altman , head of OpenAI that created ChatGPT, said that it will lead to the cure of diseases ‘at an unprecedented rate’.
Altman said:”we would be surprised at how quickly we are curing this cancer and that heart disease and what that will do to the ability to provide very high quality health care… to cure diseases at a very rapid rate.
”I think [this technology] will be among the most important things.
Similar experimental mRNA cancer vaccines have been in development since the technology was advanced during the Covid pandemic.
MRNA vaccines were thrust into the public sphere when Trump founded Operation Zimbarp Speed, a campaign to facilitate and accelerate the development and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines and treatments.