Big tech says AI can find a cure for cancer. So where is it?

AI executives claim cancer could be cured in five to ten years or within our lifetimes, even as AI is also framed as an existential threat. The article contrasts those promises with the author’s grandmother June, who died nine years ago of pancreatic cancer—the 12th most common cancer worldwide and sixth leading cause of cancer death, with among the worst prognoses according to the WHO.