Will Machine Learning replace animal experiments?

Question

i'm sometimes wondering why we're still using animals to conduct experiments?can't we use Machine Learning models to stop all the animal suffering?

jleyank · Accepted Answer

Not until ml has some ability to identify and even handle edge cases. If you talk about animal testing for things like cosmetics, we&rsquo;re probably ok if nothing new gets introduced for a while. If, however, you&rsquo;re looking at drug matter there&rsquo;s a high risk without pre-human testing. Especially with a new target or mode of action.Possible that such edge cases could then be treated with more elaborate models, but edge cases still present a problem. There were antibody examples where primates had no problem while humans damn near died. Pharmaceutical advancement will be much slower and lawyers&rsquo; purses much heavier.

PaulHoule · Answer

We don't have a complete model of living creatures so we can't perfectly simulate the creature-substance interaction.
Many personal care products that advertise they are not tested on animals simply use conservative choices of ingredients that are believed to be safe.
Some people have it worse than me but many personal care products that are allegedly safe cause me to break out in hives.