Is AI coming for my job? It’s not uncommon to wonder these days. 

What if AI could just read a press release and appreciate the value of a stock at least as well as I think I can? Might not be a big jump from there to AI opening up its own biotech fund. 

But before I ceded my job to ChatGPT, I figured I would at least take it for a test drive by having it analyze a press release from a company I knew well.

Last March, our Planetary Health team convened investors from 25 of Boston's leading climate tech firms for our own version of March Madness, to predict which planetary/climate tech sub-sectors would have the most successful 2024. Well, it's the moment we've all been waiting for. The results are in!

We asked ChatGPT some of the most common questions with which we see our elected representatives struggle. Does NIH invent drugs? What are profit margins like in the pharmaceutical industry? Will lowering drug list prices via imposing price controls on pharmaceutical companies lower patients' out-of-pocket costs? Find out what AI thinks.

Given the seemingly endless supply of COVID-19-related content, it has sometimes felt like I was passively binging on round-the-clock coverage that was more distracting than edifying. So what might I have missed while I was absorbed in COVID? As it turns out, quite a lot.