Bhargav Raman is a physician executive.
Dara closes one eye, then the other. “What the hell?” she thinks. The vision in one eye is noticeably darker and worse than in the other eye. She exits the dark room, where she had been coding a new website for a client, and heads to the bathroom. She looks at herself in the mirror. Nothing seemed wrong with her eyes. Nothing hurts, well, maybe a slight headache, but she …
When I was a young bonnie lad of just 16, I was lucky enough to score a meeting with Sandy Napel, PhD at Stanford University’s Radiological Sciences Laboratory (RSL). I demonstrated a prototype algorithm that automatically identified the position and course of arteries on CT scans. It was the first shot in a nearly decade-long academic research career that included early publications on using neural networks (the precursor to today’s …
I was at a conference of physician executives and physician founders recently, and there were many stimulating conversations. The idea that AI could see us as a threat and eventually destroy us came up in various forms, often as a half-serious joke. Half-serious jokes are serious concerns. Indeed, astrophysicist Martin Rees predicted that humanity had a 50 percent chance of destroying itself this century due to technological advances and threats, …
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