Nobel Laureate Doudna Casts Doubt on AI Drug Discovery Hype

Jennifer Doudna, a Nobel Prize winner and co-inventor of CRISPR-Cas9, voiced a cautious view on the outsized expectations around AI in medicine and drug discovery on Bloomberg Originals' program "The Circuit with Emily Chang." According to a Bloomberg article and the official YouTube video released on June 24, 2026, Doudna responded to the question of whether AI will cure cancer by saying that scientific breakthroughs still require human ingenuity and a great deal of hard work, adding that in her own lab she has not seen chatbot-style AI independently generate innovation.