Kevin Cirilli is a futurist reporter and founder of Meet The Future Website: MTF.TV
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from WOAR. Here's Larry Minte with
more of the wr Saturday Morning Show. Welcome Back. Because
of AI, medical advances are happening at a blinding speed.
Futurist reporter Kevin Cirelli has three from just this past week.
Hey Kevin, good to talk to you again.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hey, thanks for having me. I mean, this is a
good news story, which is rare these days.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Right.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The FEA just approves the first ever Alzheimer's blood tests.
So previously, if anyone has any experience with Alzheimer's or
dementia or Huntington's or Parkinson's, I mean, you know that
you have to get a pet scan or a spinal
tap in or order to detect Alzheimer's. But now with
(00:46):
this FDA approval, you just got to get a blood
test which early detection. Folks can start getting it in
their mid fifties. Early detection which means before the symptoms
even start to come on, which lets you get earlier
treatment and as the treatments get better. You know, this
is a major major breakthrough for Alzheimer's.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We have to point out that there are treatments to
slow Alzheimer's, so this is critical Kevin.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's absolutely critical, and it really arrived faster because the
artificial intelligence is accelerating the pipeline. These AI trained on
massive data sets of patients to help identify which blood
proteins were reliable early markers. Now I'm not a doctor,
but I am a journalist and I'm translating all of this,
and essentially what it means is that what used to
(01:33):
take years for trial and error now happens in months
thanks to the machine learning. Meanwhile, while we've got this
major breakthrough on Alzheimer's here in the US, in the UK,
bientists were using a handheld DNA sequencer to detect brain
tumors that typically took two months. Now it just takes
two hours, which is again a really major breakthrough. And
(01:56):
where I grew up outside of Philly, this one really
got to me. I don't know if you guys saw
this in New York, but there was the first time
doctors were able to go in when a baby had
a very rare disease and they offered a personalized DNA
six So it was code editing inside of an actual
human cell to correct the defect. So this isn't just
(02:19):
like they found a cure. This was the first time
that they've ever done this, not just in the United States,
but anywhere in the world. It's a massive, massive medical breakthrough.
As it relates to DNA, it.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Is a wonderful breakthrough, But the fact that they can
remap DNA is a little scary, isn't it, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
That's where the regulations have to meet the moment and
truly meets the future because the artificial intelligence and what's
coming after that, quantum computing. It's happening so fast that
the question becomes, are our human policies and our human
healthcare systems able to keep up with the pace of
how fast this is happening. These personalized treatments, they're powered
(02:57):
by the AI. But see your point, could that ever
be used for bad? And you know, I think that
the regulations have to protect that, But the bottom line
is it can also be used.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
For good or for frivolous. I mean, if you if
you want your child to be blonde, if you want
your your child to be smarter, I'm sure there's some
kind of DNA mapping that would help with that. And
I just you worry sometimes when you hear these major
breakthroughs and obviously, this is a wonderful thing that's happened
in Philadelphia. I assume it happened to chop is that right.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is which is awesome. Yeah, But
to your point, I mean, you're not asking the wrong questions.
And I mean, and I'll take a real STARp left
turn here, and then I'll note that in the pet world,
people are actually purchasing DNA genetics to have their pets cloned,
(03:53):
which again is a very sharp term for this comedy.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I understand how it makes sense, Yeah, because how far
are we away from having people cloned?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And so now there are regulators at the state level
in Texas who are having to look at this because
weirdly enough, Texas has become the place to do this.
I mean, Paris Hilton a couple of months ago was
out there talking about how she cloned one of her
beloved dogs. And there's a company in the UK that
is there's like a whole cottage industry of this. And
(04:23):
my dog is staring at me now as I'm talking
about this, like are you cloning me? But but you know,
I mean, we're living in the future where there's an
industry for that. So Larry I mean, you know you're
not asking the wrong questions.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Oh no, I didn't think I was until you brought
it up.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
So anything else out there that you'd scare us, because
it seems like I'd.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Never want to scare you know, well.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Absolutely, it's a little bit scary. Absolutely, And the problem
is that, of course, many of these things that you're
hearing about, depending on what you know, what insurance covers
are only available to the rich.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, and I think that's the biggest lesson for now,
which is AI is going to be able to be
way more prescriptive than we could ever imagine. And that
is an awesome, awesome capability. But can the AI fight
through the reductive and robust regulations and all of the
(05:26):
paperwork and the wait times in the hospitals. I don't
know if it can. I mean, in the human systems
just have to keep up with that. But you know,
the robotics of all of this is also another interesting thing.
John Hopkins is testing just they announced this week that
robots are now making precisions on pigs. They're testing with
(05:46):
pigs and cutting open and stitching things together. So it's
like robot do I call them doc bots that are
making incisions, you know, And so we're living in a
world where robotics and doctors are going to be working
way more in tangent with one another. So, whether it's
the hip replacement and knee replacement, these robots are really
(06:06):
going to be more at the future of in the
oar scrubbing, in the dock bots.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Are there legislators, are there congressmen or people in health
and human services that are aware of this and talking
about legislation to limit some of it?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I will, you know, this is where I will be
a little pessimistic, Larry. I'm here in Washington, d C.
Where I'm based, and you know, no, the conversations that
are had we all and this is a large part
of why I found in Me in the Future is
because the conversations in Washington are just so rerun repeat
same old battle lines. They're not thinking of how the
(06:46):
citizens experience is dramatically changing in real time as a
result of the new technology. And so you know, you
have to wonder when will the policy conversations be shifted
to get not even just into the future, but into
the present day, whether it's on digital currency or these
(07:07):
new medical breakthroughs. It's just it's very antiquated to the conversations,
and so there doesn't seem to be right now an
outlook for the future on from from any policymakers. It
seems to be much more of the scale conversations that
we're all used to.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It was great news in the beginning. Let's go back
to what you said at the beginning.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Larry Friday on a holiday weekend, I was like, I
was so excited. I'm like, Larry, I just got Larry's show,
and now I'm like talking about dog cloning and like
all of this stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Have a great weekend. We're all happy with what you
told us. We're not it's years from now. We're not
happy about Thanks so much. Kevin's a really futurist reporter
and founder of Meet the Future website.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You should visit that. He knows a lot. This has
been a podcast from dou Wo r.
This is a podcast from WOAR. Here's Larry Minte with
more of the wr Saturday Morning Show. Welcome Back. Because
of AI, medical advances are happening at a blinding speed.
Futurist reporter Kevin Cirelli has three from just this past week.
Hey Kevin, good to talk to you again.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hey, thanks for having me. I mean, this is a
good news story, which is rare these days.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Right.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The FEA just approves the first ever Alzheimer's blood tests.
So previously, if anyone has any experience with Alzheimer's or
dementia or Huntington's or Parkinson's, I mean, you know that
you have to get a pet scan or a spinal
tap in or order to detect Alzheimer's. But now with
(00:46):
this FDA approval, you just got to get a blood
test which early detection. Folks can start getting it in
their mid fifties. Early detection which means before the symptoms
even start to come on, which lets you get earlier
treatment and as the treatments get better. You know, this
is a major major breakthrough for Alzheimer's.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We have to point out that there are treatments to
slow Alzheimer's, so this is critical Kevin.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's absolutely critical, and it really arrived faster because the
artificial intelligence is accelerating the pipeline. These AI trained on
massive data sets of patients to help identify which blood
proteins were reliable early markers. Now I'm not a doctor,
but I am a journalist and I'm translating all of this,
and essentially what it means is that what used to
(01:33):
take years for trial and error now happens in months
thanks to the machine learning. Meanwhile, while we've got this
major breakthrough on Alzheimer's here in the US, in the UK,
bientists were using a handheld DNA sequencer to detect brain
tumors that typically took two months. Now it just takes
two hours, which is again a really major breakthrough. And
(01:56):
where I grew up outside of Philly, this one really
got to me. I don't know if you guys saw
this in New York, but there was the first time
doctors were able to go in when a baby had
a very rare disease and they offered a personalized DNA
six So it was code editing inside of an actual
human cell to correct the defect. So this isn't just
(02:19):
like they found a cure. This was the first time
that they've ever done this, not just in the United States,
but anywhere in the world. It's a massive, massive medical breakthrough.
As it relates to DNA, it.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Is a wonderful breakthrough, But the fact that they can
remap DNA is a little scary, isn't it, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
That's where the regulations have to meet the moment and
truly meets the future because the artificial intelligence and what's
coming after that, quantum computing. It's happening so fast that
the question becomes, are our human policies and our human
healthcare systems able to keep up with the pace of
how fast this is happening. These personalized treatments, they're powered
(02:57):
by the AI. But see your point, could that ever
be used for bad? And you know, I think that
the regulations have to protect that, But the bottom line
is it can also be used.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
For good or for frivolous. I mean, if you if
you want your child to be blonde, if you want
your your child to be smarter, I'm sure there's some
kind of DNA mapping that would help with that. And
I just you worry sometimes when you hear these major
breakthroughs and obviously, this is a wonderful thing that's happened
in Philadelphia. I assume it happened to chop is that right.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is which is awesome. Yeah, But
to your point, I mean, you're not asking the wrong questions.
And I mean, and I'll take a real STARp left
turn here, and then I'll note that in the pet world,
people are actually purchasing DNA genetics to have their pets cloned,
(03:53):
which again is a very sharp term for this comedy.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I understand how it makes sense, Yeah, because how far
are we away from having people cloned?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And so now there are regulators at the state level
in Texas who are having to look at this because
weirdly enough, Texas has become the place to do this.
I mean, Paris Hilton a couple of months ago was
out there talking about how she cloned one of her
beloved dogs. And there's a company in the UK that
is there's like a whole cottage industry of this. And
(04:23):
my dog is staring at me now as I'm talking
about this, like are you cloning me? But but you know,
I mean, we're living in the future where there's an
industry for that. So Larry I mean, you know you're
not asking the wrong questions.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Oh no, I didn't think I was until you brought
it up.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
So anything else out there that you'd scare us, because
it seems like I'd.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Never want to scare you know, well.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Absolutely, it's a little bit scary. Absolutely, And the problem
is that, of course, many of these things that you're
hearing about, depending on what you know, what insurance covers
are only available to the rich.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, and I think that's the biggest lesson for now,
which is AI is going to be able to be
way more prescriptive than we could ever imagine. And that
is an awesome, awesome capability. But can the AI fight
through the reductive and robust regulations and all of the
(05:26):
paperwork and the wait times in the hospitals. I don't
know if it can. I mean, in the human systems
just have to keep up with that. But you know,
the robotics of all of this is also another interesting thing.
John Hopkins is testing just they announced this week that
robots are now making precisions on pigs. They're testing with
(05:46):
pigs and cutting open and stitching things together. So it's
like robot do I call them doc bots that are
making incisions, you know, And so we're living in a
world where robotics and doctors are going to be working
way more in tangent with one another. So, whether it's
the hip replacement and knee replacement, these robots are really
(06:06):
going to be more at the future of in the
oar scrubbing, in the dock bots.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Are there legislators, are there congressmen or people in health
and human services that are aware of this and talking
about legislation to limit some of it?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I will, you know, this is where I will be
a little pessimistic, Larry. I'm here in Washington, d C.
Where I'm based, and you know, no, the conversations that
are had we all and this is a large part
of why I found in Me in the Future is
because the conversations in Washington are just so rerun repeat
same old battle lines. They're not thinking of how the
(06:46):
citizens experience is dramatically changing in real time as a
result of the new technology. And so you know, you
have to wonder when will the policy conversations be shifted
to get not even just into the future, but into
the present day, whether it's on digital currency or these
(07:07):
new medical breakthroughs. It's just it's very antiquated to the conversations,
and so there doesn't seem to be right now an
outlook for the future on from from any policymakers. It
seems to be much more of the scale conversations that
we're all used to.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It was great news in the beginning. Let's go back
to what you said at the beginning.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Larry Friday on a holiday weekend, I was like, I
was so excited. I'm like, Larry, I just got Larry's show,
and now I'm like talking about dog cloning and like
all of this stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Have a great weekend. We're all happy with what you
told us. We're not it's years from now. We're not
happy about Thanks so much. Kevin's a really futurist reporter
and founder of Meet the Future website.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
You should visit that. He knows a lot. This has
been a podcast from dou Wo r.
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