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#62 - Health Innovations of March 2026

Christophe Jauquet Season 4 Episode 8

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Episode: Who Decides What Health Is Now?

With Mo Zouina, Aline Noizet, and Nia Escobar-Kölle

Health is quietly leaving the hospital. It's checking into Equinox for the night, waiting at the supermarket checkout, sitting on a finger in the form of an Oura ring that seems to understand women's bodies better than decades of medicine did. Aline walks us through Alan's new AI features and what happens when the wearable finally walks into the ward — but the real question isn't technical. If your insurer's algorithm, your grocery receipt, and your sleep hotel all know more about your body than your GP, where exactly does care live now?

That question gets sharper once you ask who's actually in charge. Mo pulls at the thread of Meta and Google being fined again, while CJ raises the scenario we keep avoiding: what if AI doesn't advise your health, but decides it? Nia drops in something that sounds like a sideshow — robot fights — but maybe it's rehearsal. We're learning, publicly, how to feel about intelligent machines before they start making the calls that matter. Are we regulating the pipes, or have we already stopped trusting them?

And then the conversation drifts toward the edges of being human. Sam Altman is betting on Retro Bioscience to reverse ageing on one end; Mo sits with dementia and euthanasia on the other. In between, Aline describes a virtual train running inside a nursing home — presence, engineered. Mo closes with something strange and quietly disruptive: plants, it turns out, have around 20 senses. If intelligence isn't brain-shaped and life isn't hospital-shaped, what exactly have we been optimising for all along?

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