Dr. Alok Kanojia

I don't think the platforms are evil.

I think they're just not looking at that dimension.

So no one at an AI company is designing a clinical trial to be run through the FDA to measure.

They're just not measuring outcomes.

like safety issues, as far as I know, like not at the level that we do when we're like looking at pharmacology.

I think these people are, you know, someone, and I've worked with so many people who like work at YouTube and Meta and stuff like that, Twitch.

And I don't think they're like bad, evil people.

Like this is a big, this is a very black or white thinking induced by social media content where like all these companies are evil or they're totally fine.

No, it's like-

Absolutely.

And I think a lot of times, you know, they're just like, OK, if I'm Instagram Reels and I'm like a programmer, a developer there and someone's like, OK, like this amount of the market share is TikTok.

How do we bring those TikTok users over here?

Right.

It's like if I have a car and it's like, how do I get someone who buys a different kind of car to buy my car?

That's just what business is.

I don't think they're evil.

I think what they're doing, and this is how humanity works, right?

So it's like we invent something and then we figure out afterward that it's harmful.

So I don't think people should stop using AI by any means, but I think that the health, what I'm most concerned about is that the health effects are a lot more causal as opposed to uncovering.

I think there's like starting to be like some pretty startling data