India, Nov. 15 -- Artificial intelligence is already cutting the time it takes to design new medicines from years to months, oncologist and author Siddhartha Mukherjee said on Saturday, but it must now make medicines faster, cheaper and better for patients if it is to prove its worth.

"The single mitigating feature of AI is its capacity to produce transformative medicine," Mukherjee, co-founder and chief executive of the drug-discovery company Manas AI, said at the 24th edition of the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit. "Exhibit A of AI's transformative power for human good is medicine. And if we fail in exhibit A, that creates an enormous problem for. whether we put up data centres or not, or what the value is of AI in various other indu...