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title: "When AI designs a drug, who gets the credit?"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/when-ai-designs-a-drug-who-gets-the-credit-v7d948202
published: 2026-08-21T09:00:00.000Z
byline: "Source: MIT Technology Review"
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# When AI designs a drug, who gets the credit?

Source: MIT Technology Review · Published 2026-08-21 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/when-ai-designs-a-drug-who-gets-the-credit-v7d948202

When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a press release that the molecule had been “discovered by” its generative AI platform. Insilico leads a pack of companies using AI to rapidly come up with drug ideas humans might never think…

In this story: [AI drug discovery](https://frontiernewswire.com/topics/ai-drug-discovery)

## Sources

- [Read the original at MIT Technology Review](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/21/1142627/when-ai-designs-a-drug-who-gets-the-credit/)

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