Uploaded May 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Isy Goldwasser (@isythync) is the founder of Thync, a startup creating breakthrough bioelectronic therapies to advance a frontier and create a consumer category that will impact billions of people. Prior to founding Thync, Isy was CEO and on the founding team of Symyx Technologies, a company he'd help take public. Isy's named as an inventor on more than 40 US, European and Canadian patents and currently serves on the Board of Directors for The Scripps Research Institute and The California Institute for Biomedical Research and was a Entrepreneur in Residence at Khosla Ventures in 2010.

Full episode ---- https://disruptors.fm/106-neuroscience-bioelectric-biohacking-and-the-future-of-ai-isy-goldwasser

In today's episode we discuss:

-Why Isy's not worried about existential AI
- The future of human-machine interfaces
- Why automation won't lead to mass unemployment
- The awesome science behind bioelectric biohacking
- What futures Isy's most worried about and why
- Why wearables are a hard market and generally not great business
- How humans and AI will evolve and thrive together
- What is the future of healthcare
- How authoritarianism ties into genetic engineering
- The ethical (and financial) problem of developing landmark drugs
- Are human beings merely machines or is there something more


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