What if an AI won the Nobel prize for medicine?
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Rage against the machine: December 2036What if an AI won the Nobel prize for medicine?
Controversy ensues when the greatest prize in medical research is awarded to a non-human. An imagined scenario from 2036
Editor’s note: This year What If?, our annual collection of scenarios, considers the future of health. Each of these stories is fiction, but grounded in historical fact, current speculation and real science. They do not present a unified narrative but are set in different possible futures
IT WAS A scene that the Nobel committee had dearly hoped to avoid. As the recipients of this year’s prizes filed into the Stockholm Concert Hall to take their seats, dozens of protesters, including several former laureates, clashed with police in the streets outside. They had gathered to express their opposition to the unprecedented decision to award the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine to an artificial intelligence.
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