Oracle CTO Larry Ellison announced plans to use AI to develop personalized mRNA “vaccines” to treat cancer as part of President Trump’s $500 billion Stargate Project.
The bold initiative, unveiled during a White House press conference with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, has alarmed many people who see the embrace of experimental gene therapy as a betrayal of the Make America Healthy Again principles they voted for.
Critics argue the project represents a dangerous gamble with experimental technology and essentially represents “Operation Warp Speed 2.0 on steroids.”
“One of the most exciting things we’re working on using the tools that Sam [Altman] and [Masayoshi Son] are providing is a cancer vaccine,” Ellison said.
NOW — Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says AI will be able to detect early stages of cancer and develop personalized mRNA vaccine therapies pic.twitter.com/ZAX7skKWSq
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“Turns out, all of our cancers, cancer tumors- little fragments of those tumors float around in your blood. So you can do early cancer detection with a blood test. And using AI to look at the blood test, you can find the cancers that are actually seriously threatening the person.”
“Cancer diagnosis using AI has the promise of just being a simple blood test,” Ellison continued. “Then once we gene-sequence that cancer tumor, you can then vaccinate the person, design a vaccine for every individual person to vaccinate them against that cancer.”
“And you can make that mRNA vaccine, you can make that robotically against using AI in about 48 hours,” he added. “This is the promise of AI and the promise of the future.”
Altman likewise predicted that “we will be amazed at how quickly we’re curing this cancer and that one – and heart disease” thanks to the development of more advanced AI technology.
SAM ALTMAN: The AI technology investment secured by Donald Trump will cure cancer "at a rapid, rapid rate." pic.twitter.com/IhTYm3mCHC
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Robert Malone, the inventor of mRNA technology who has since become a vocal critic of its unforeseen risks, reacted to the announcement with a mix of disgust and anger.
He warned that the Stargate Project, with its reliance on unproven mRNA technology, is a disaster in the making—one that could have far-reaching and dangerous consequences.
“I can’t believe that we are being spoon-fed this hype from the likes of Oracle’s Larry Ellison so soon after the inauguration,” said Malone on his Substack. “Having this guy lecture us on mRNA vaccines for cancer is over the top. And apparently the prior propaganda reference to “Star Trek” (operation warp speed) is no longer effective, and we need something bigger, more potent. Something else out of science fiction television that evokes yet another trendy topic -“unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP). “Stargate”. Perfect. What could possibly go wrong? Marketing genius.
“This all makes me throw up a bit in my throat,” said Malone.
Trump, meanwhile, hailed the half-trillion dollar Stargate project as a “monumental undertaking” and a “resounding declaration of confidence in America’s potential” that would create around 100,000 new jobs, and will ensure America leads the world in the “future of technology.”
BREAKING: President Trump announced the creation of the new major American AI company, 'Stargate,' which will invest $500 billion into the country and potentially create 100,000 new American jobs immediately. pic.twitter.com/HXy0NSJa9Y
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Notably, Elon Musk, tapped by Trump to head the Department of Government Efficiency, poured cold water all over Stargate on X, claiming that Altman is a “swindler” and that OpenAI and Softbank don’t “actually have the money” necessary to launch the project.
Sam is a swindler
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 22, 2025
They don’t actually have the money
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 22, 2025