A deep dive into three X moonshot projects—Skip's powered "movewear", Project Iris's journey from smart contact lenses to revolutionizing glucose monitoring, and Verily's mission to enable precision healthcare through AI and comprehensive data aggregation.
OpenAI's Dr. Nate Gross and Karan Singhal detail their strategy for applying AI in healthcare, focusing on the rigorous, physician-led process for training models on sensitive health data. They discuss the challenges of deployment in siloed systems and how AI is evolving from a Q&A tool into an integrated assistant for patients and a critical safety net for clinicians.
Dr. Sarah Gebauer presents a clinical framework for deploying AI agents in healthcare, drawing a powerful analogy between AI agents and medical residents. She outlines the critical risks, validation strategies, and post-deployment monitoring required to make agents useful, safe, and credible in high-stakes clinical environments.
Founders from Function Health and Slingshot AI discuss building consumer health products by shifting from digital-only context to a 'Human Experience' that brings biological and psychological data online. They explore new engagement paradigms beyond DAU, the role of AI in augmenting rather than replacing doctors, and the ethical imperative of preserving user autonomy.
Bryan Kim from a16z, Jonathan Swerdlin from Function Health, and Daniel Cahn from Slingshot AI / Ash discuss how AI is revolutionizing healthcare and mental health by focusing on deep human context rather than just digital behavior. They explore building consumer trust, augmenting rather than replacing professionals, and creating new engagement models like "hourly active use" for a more accessible, continuous, and personalized future of care.