Selected essays on AI, genomics, and the human side of transformation. Full list published on Ctrl Alt Human.
Genomics is generating the most consequential dataset in history. The gap between generating it and having a vision for it will define the next era of human health, wealth, and power.
The consent structures in genomics are more formalized now. But someone is still benefiting from this data. And it is most often not the person it came from.
The debate about AI is over. And somehow, unusually, everyone agrees. Nothing stops it, nothing slows it down, and it certainly does not wait for anyone to be ready.
AI has started to resemble a duck on water. On the surface, it looks smooth, elegant, effortless. Underneath, there is frantic motion.
On AI music, who gets to make culture, and one very unlikely collaboration I'm hoping for.
A bar mitzvah is a formal threshold. The status changes in a moment, even if the maturity to carry it fully comes later. That is enterprise AI right now.
Rare disease became visible when it became a category. Genetic risk hasn't gotten there yet.
I wanted to see the BRCA ecosystem the way I'd seen AI and ML ecosystems mapped in the early 2010s. I couldn't find a map like that. So I built one.
The man who chases two rabbits catches neither. On focus, strategy, and what AI changes about that equation.
I spent my career at the edge of technology. A health scare forced me to pause. I ended up back where my career began: sound.
