CEO and Founder of Ad Astra Media LLC and an Eisenhower Fellow with the 2020 ZHI-XING Fellows Program. He is a health and technology keynote speaker, author and a consultant for NASA, Forbes, MIT and the White House Office of Science and Technology. He is considered a leader in exponential technology innovation and excels at leading multidisciplinary teams that sit at the epicenter of biotechnology, AI and aerospace. He is considered the first Intergalactic Doctor and is often featured on Forbes, Univision, CNBC and NASA360. His latest essay “The Future Shock of Medicine: How AI will Transform Disease, Death and Doctors” was recently reviewed by The Wall Street Journal along with other contributions by contemporary thought leaders. He serves as a technology and business advisor for MIT, NASA, UVA, African Innovation Alliance, US-Polish Alliance for Innovation and has served as special envoy to the Polish Space Agency.
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- 02:06 — Leonardo Da Vinci, what can we learn from Da Vinci's personality in these challenging times?
- 03:35 — Learning from those that know more than we do
- 05:12 — Exponential thinking - working on something bigger than yourself
- 07:40 — Healthcare and artificial intelligence
- 10:22 — Why artificial intelligence is a unique tool
- 11:39 — the future artificial intelligence as a reflection of ourselves
- 12:28 — Ethical AI: bias in the data
- 14:40 — Augmented humans: Physicians and AI, coexisting and collaborating
- 16:20 — The change brought by AI
- 18:26 — The future of healthcare
- 20:18 — The artificial researcher, will it happen?
- 21:35 — The transition from wellness to disease
- 22:26 — Healthcare data digitization challenge
- 24:05 — Singularity - GPT AI models and what if the process has began
- 24:38 — May some of these AI algorythms be somewhat, if minimally, sentient?
- 25:06 — GPT and the unicorn story
- 25:29 — Robert Sapolsky, primates vs humans in the brain, complexity that produces qualitative leaps
- 26:45 — Did we hit the singularity already and haven't realized?
- 28:29 — Are we already incubating the beginning of AI sentience?
- 29:41 — Healthcare challenges on Space, AI
- 31:10 — One way trip to Mars
- 32:54 — Nasa ITech project: technology gaps and challenges in space
- 33:47 — Science fiction vs Science fact
- 34:51 — The radiation challenge: water, the wifi shield
- 35:50 — Preventive surgeries and other challenges related to gravity and space
- 36:43 — Dementia issues; females are more resilient when exposed to radiation
- 37:57 — The potential benefits of full female crews
- 38:32 — Women, space and science
- 39:00 — What will future humans, living outside earth, think of us when they look back?
- 41:25 — Universal things that connect us
- 44:05 — Extremophiles: extreme bacteria living in extreme environments
- 46:45 — New ways in which life may evolve - studying extremophiles
- 47:24 — How extremophiles can help us and teach us to deal with our challenges
- 48:04 — Terraforming and climate change
- 50:06 — Jose's grandmother and humanity
- 52:04 — The importance of giving
- 52:57 — Humanity: light and darkness