You don’t need to be smarter in every possible way to get radically increase in speed to solve illnesses.
You need the scientific and technological creativity part, and the rest would probably flow, is my guess.
I think part of the motive of making AGI is to solve all illnesses for everyone and not just people who aren’t yet born.
What I mean is that giving humanity more brainpower also gets these benefits. See https://tsvibt.blogspot.com/2025/11/hia-and-x-risk-part-1-why-it-helps.html It may take longer than AGI, but also it doesn’t pose a (huge) risk of killing everyone.
You need the scientific and technological creativity part, and the rest would probably flow, is my guess.
What I mean is that giving humanity more brainpower also gets these benefits. See https://tsvibt.blogspot.com/2025/11/hia-and-x-risk-part-1-why-it-helps.html It may take longer than AGI, but also it doesn’t pose a (huge) risk of killing everyone.