Eric Larson

not the origination of the technology that separates the winners from the losers.

Bring us to today.

I think about U.S.

healthcare, Jess, in terms of these incumbents that have nation-state size and consequence.

57 health systems in the U.S.

would qualify for inclusion on the Fortune 500 if it was just determined by revenue, right?

These are huge conglomerates.

And so if you sort of analogize big health systems, payers, life sciences companies, big med tech companies as nation-states,

It's not who originates the technology, it's who diffuses Gen AI, even in its current nascent applications of documentation, summarization, coding, proto-agentic capabilities.

Whoever diffuses that into the deep metabolism of the organization...

We'll see the productivity augmentation, and we'll see the benefits in productivity or lower costs or diffusing medicine to broader access points, right?

So that's one of the biggest lessons for me in history.

Yeah, maybe I'll start there, almost at the big osmos level.

Why is this, like, civilizationally important?

And then we'll talk about merely U.S.

healthcare and merely the U.S.

GDP, right?

I mean, you know, the reason I think that is because this is... I think about Gen AI as a multiplication of intelligence, right?

Think about who we are as a species.

You know, homo sapiens, right?