Steve Brown's house burned down in a wildfire—and accidentally saved his life. When doctors missed his aggressive blood cancer for over a year, Steve built a swarm of AI agents that diagnosed it in minutes and helped design his treatment. Now he's turning that breakthrough into CureWise, a precision oncology platform helping cancer patients become better advocates. We explore agentic medicine, AI safety in healthcare, and how swarms of specialized AI agents are changing cancer care from diagnosis to treatment selection.🔗 Get on the CureWise waitlist: https://curewise.com📧 Subscribe to The Neuron newsletter: https://theneuron.ai
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A wildfire destroyed his home and accidentally saved his life. When doctors missed an aggressive blood cancer, Steve Brown built an AI swarm that caught it in minutes and helped tailor his treatment. Now, he's turning that end of one breakthrough into cure-wise for everyone. Welcome, humans, to the Neuron AI Explained podcast. I'm Corey Knowles, joined here as always by my co-host, Grant Harvey.
How are you today, Grant?
Doing good. Doing good. How are you doing, Corey?
Good. I'm excited about this call. Today we're talking with Steve Brown, founder and CEO of CureWise. And why Steve? Because CureWise is one of the clearest, highest stakes examples of agentic AI moving from demos to real decisions in medicine. And we think that is awesome. Steve, how are you today? Great. Great to be here. Good, good. We're sure excited to have you.
This is a topic that's near and dear to both of us, and we're regularly discussing, you know, kind of our hopes for AI and healthcare in the future. And it's nice to see a project coming out of the lab and into fruition, what you're working on here.
Well, when you're doing it for yourself, when you're the first customer, you kind of know what you need and you kind of can keep iterating it and improving it because you're customer number one. It's not that I really wanted to be customer number one for a cancer AI application, but it is really a phenomenal use of AI I have found based on just using it for myself.
You play the cards you're dealt, right? Yeah, well, I mean, I was doing a lot of different things in AI. I was throwing a lot of spaghetti at the wall and the challenge was it was all sticking. So it was like, what am I going to do? So this wasn't the mission I chose.
It's the mission that chose me, but it is really a phenomenal use of AI because cancer is so complex and everybody's cancer is different. And it's the first time we've had a technology that can handle the kind of the level of complexity that we need.
And it's been very, very instrumental for me in understanding my own condition and helping me figure out how to get the best possible treatment that maps to my own kind of genetics of my own cancer. And if a million people get the latest COVID variant, that's a million people with the identical pathogen.
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