It boggles my mind. Why cure cancer? The cancer researchers will be out of a job and their kids are going to starve!
We absolutely want to, of course. But you extinguish an industry and the systems of training that supply it. It's hard to know if letting it go that way is right.
AI should be the commons.
I have a the cure for cancer. Simply kill the host. Does it work? Yes. Have you learned anything from it? No.