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"The Cognitive Revolution"

"The Cognitive Revolution"

Universal Medical Intelligence: OpenAI's Plan to Elevate Human Health, with Karan Singhal

"The Cognitive Revolution" · Feb 25, 2026 · 2:01:23

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Karan Singhal, Head of Health AI at OpenAI, explains how ChatGPT Health is achieving attending-physician-level performance and already serving hundreds of millions of users. He details how OpenAI works with over 250 doctors, built the 49,000-criteria HealthBench evaluation, and ran one of the first randomized trials of AI copilots in clinical care. The conversation explores privacy and safety safeguards, medical multimodality, N-of-1 treatment plans, and how AI could become a standard part of global medical practice.

Nathan uses Granola to uncover blind spots in conversations and AI research. Try it at ⁠granola.ai/tcr⁠ with code TCR — and if you’re already using it, test his blind spot recipe here: ⁠https://bit.ly/granolablindspot⁠

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CHAPTERS:

(00:00) About the Episode

(06:11) Cancer story and mission

(11:46) Designing safe health AI (Part 1)

(17:49) Sponsors: Claude | Serval

(21:09) Designing safe health AI (Part 2)

(26:48) Uncertainty, HealthBench and robustness (Part 1)

(30:23) Sponsors: Framer | Tasklet

(32:50) Uncertainty, HealthBench and robustness (Part 2)

(38:11) Chain-of-thought and evaluation

(46:49) Real-world performance and frontiers

(55:35) Multimodal data and science

(01:05:36) Personalization, privacy and monitoring

(01:15:47) Models, data and incentives

(01:29:31) Doctor adoption and workflows

(01:38:13) Scalable oversight and alignment

(01:51:06) Move 37 and future

(02:00:50) Episode Outro

(02:03:06) Outro

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