patent office absolutely can benefit from AI, and i hope they are on it, but the post from biloxi is extremely concerning. to trust AI in all those steps mentioned is far too much trust. to replace animal testing is asinine. nature has not been broken down to math, at least not yet. google currently gives useless results to basic searches by the time you get to the 10th result, and theres 14,000 results?. i often have to search my gmails for specific words and the results come up empty where i eventually find it manually myself because i know for a fact it is in there 3 tuesdays ago. and bingo there it is. it just simply doesnt work half the time. i dont trust a waymo to not kill me at 80 mph into a brick wall, and neither should anybody else.

i believe AI can help identify new avenues of exploration in drug development, but to hand any of these "mundane repetitive" steps off to a computer is asking for big trouble. i promise you it will kill people, way worse than aduhelm or remdesivir. remember vioxx? these examples could easily have been shining stars in the eyes of AI