Kevin SuraceKevin Surace is an AI pioneer, inventor, author, and human effectiveness authority helping people thrive while AI reshapes work and life.

AI Could Completely Change How Fast New Drugs Are Discovered

28 Aug 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief excerpt, Kevin Surace argues that the pharmaceutical industry has relied on a decades‑old, slow drug‑development paradigm, typically yielding a single blockbuster drug roughly every ten years. He claims that artificial intelligence is poised to break this cycle, enabling companies—especially AI‑focused startups—to generate blockbuster‑level candidates every one to two months. This dramatic acceleration would dramatically lower healthcare costs by flooding the market with effective therapies far more quickly than the traditional model allows.

Pharma has spent decades developing drugs the same way. AI could be about to completely break that cycle. We're going to be driving the cost of healthcare down because instead of having a blockbuster drug once every 10 years, maybe pharma companies or startup pharma companies using AI will have a blockbuster candidate every month or 2. That's unbelievable. That's unheard of. A pharma company could not think of doing that, and yet AI can help deliver that, right?