AI will cure cancer in our lifetime, claims boss of UK chip giant - BBC News

Arm Holding's chief executive Rene Haas says artificial intelligence will find a solution to the disease.

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Rene Haas predicts AI will change the way cancer cures are developed

Economics editorPublished8 September 2026The boss of the biggest UK-headquartered tech firm has said that artificial intelligence will find a cure for cancer that humans cannot in our lifetimes.

Rene Haas, chief executive of Cambridge-based chip designer Arm Holdings, said while modelling how a DNA marker is impacted by cancer was currently "too complex" a problem, computers are "going to solve it" in the future.

Haas also told the BBC that AI would lead to widespread humanoid robots in the next five years, but that its current rapid growth was being held up by a shortage of chips needed to build data centres.