Within five years of March 2021, AI programs will be reading legal documents and giving medical advice.
Accurate ●●●●●
“In the next five years, computer programs that can think will read legal documents and give medical advice.”
- Said on
- 16 March 2021 · Essay "Moore's Law for Everything" on moores.samaltman.com
- Source
- Moore's Law for Everything · Sam Altman
- Should come true
- 2026
- How sure they sounded
- will (stated as fact)
- Categories
- AIHealth
- Importance
- 3 of 5 · Would transform the legal and healthcare industries.
Outcome
Accurate Happened 15 May 2025.
Before March 2026, LLM tools were routinely reviewing legal documents (e.g. Harvey, used by a large share of top law firms and valued at $5B by mid-2025) and giving medical advice (OpenAI said 230M+ people ask ChatGPT health questions weekly when it launched ChatGPT Health in Jan 2026). Whether these programs "think" is debatable, but the checkable part happened within the window.
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/harvey-reportedly-in-discussions-to-raise-250m-at-5b-valuation/
- https://www.unite.ai/openai-launches-chatgpt-health-for-230-million-weekly-users
- https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/openai-introduces-chatgpt-health-for-health-information-everything-you-need-to-know-509942-2026-01-08
History
- 2026-10-16 23:03:53 · created by claude
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