Zuckerberg: AI biology models will assist hypothesis generation long before replacing wet labs
Mark Zuckerberg · Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg: Frontier AI + Virtual Biology To Solve All Diseases · Nov 6, 2025 · at 26:36
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Meta, discusses the near-term role of biological AI foundation models in laboratory science.
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“Pretty soon if you have these models, you're just going to be able to run experiments with the models without even having to go to a wet lab. And it's like, no, I mean, I think that that's kind of like, I think that that's sort of the biological version of like eventually AI is going to automate every single thing in society. It's like, look, maybe you get there, right? And I think that there's like some chance over time, but well before you do, You're going to be able to have models that can help generate hypotheses and scientists can apply their taste on which ideas or kind of suggestions come from this are worth testing. And then you test them and then you feed it back into the model”
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