Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his spouse Priscilla Chan established the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in 2015. And in September 2023, Zuckerberg and Chan unveiled a plan to eradicate human disease by 2100.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan recently announced their plans to help eradicate human diseases by 2100. In a statement, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) – Zuckerberg and Chan’s foundation – announced that they aim to develop a computing system that researchers can use with artificial intelligence (AI) to catalogue cells and predict how they act when diseased. The data could be used to make groundbreaking new discoveries that could help cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of this century, the foundation said.
According to the press note, CZI’s aim is to give researchers access to generative AI to study healthy and diseased cells. Using predictive models of human cells can help researchers better understand how the body responds to diseases or new medicines, the company said, adding that it is like running a “virtual cell” through different simulations to see what might happen.
