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Antibiotic resistance poses a grave threat to global health. Bacteria evolve rapidly and develop resistance, making infections harder to treat and leading to over a million deaths annually—numbers that are projected to rise sharply by 2050, reaching ten million deaths per year.
AI’s role in developing new antibiotics offers hope. By exploring uncharted chemical structures and predicting their efficacy, AI accelerates the discovery process in ways previously unimaginable. MIT’s approach effectively created ‘miracle drugs’ that could potentially save millions of lives, illustrating how AI can solve some of the most pressing medical challenges.