Will an AI-Designed Drug Receive Regulatory Approval by 2030?
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Will an AI-Designed Drug Receive Regulatory Approval by 2030?
Will an AI-Designed Drug Receive Regulatory Approval by 2030?
Will an AI-Designed Drug Receive Regulatory Approval by 2030?
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Resolution Criteria
This market resolves to Yes if, on or before December 31, 2030, a drug primarily designed using artificial intelligence is granted full regulatory approval (i.e., full marketing authorization; emergency use authorizations (EUA), conditional approvals, or expanded access do not count) by one of the following regulatory agencies: FDA (US), EMA (EU centralized authorization), MHRA (UK), PMDA (Japan), or NMPA (China) for human use.
“AI-designed” means that, in official company materials and/or regulatory documentation, the drug is explicitly described as having been primarily designed or discovered using AI, where AI is credited with either:
- generating the initial lead molecular structure (or de novo scaffold) that became the approved active ingredient, or
- identifying the biological target or binding hypothesis that the approved drug acts on.
Subsequent human-led optimization and testing does not disqualify the drug.
At least one credible report or official announcement of such an approval by 2030 is required for a Yes resolution. If no such drug is approved by then, the market resolves to No.
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