Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic? We Have the Science but Not the Sensibility, Experts Say

César de la Fuente, PhD, a Presidential Associate Professor in Psychiatry, Microbiology, Bioengineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Chemistry, believes AI could help address future pandemics, but the human element is still a factor. “When we need to take a test, we procrastinate. We tend to do the same thing with global catastrophes,” he said. “We know it’s happening, or we know it might happen again, but we’re really bad at trying to create a series of safeguards to prevent things from happening.”