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How AI Can Make Us More Human | Ian Slade and AI Hannah | TEDxPacific Avenue

AI Turns Medical Mystery into Clarity Technology now permeates intimacy—one in four people even glance at their phones during sex—leaving us distracted and divided, yet the same tools can reconnect us. Months of baffling symptoms led to endless tests and an oncologist who had never seen a case like it, fueling fear despite no cancer diagnosis. Aggregating lab results, wearable metrics, sleep and weight logs into AI revealed elevated cortisol, low red blood cells, and HPA‑axis irregularities. AI indicated two benign tumors—pituitary and adrenal—enabling a more accurate diagnosis and treatment plan, and avoiding the fate of many among the 12 million misdiagnosed and 250,000 early deaths each year.

Choose Presence Over Problem-Solving Uploading marital text threads into AI exposed a pattern: relentless efficiency and fixing over warmth. Conversations turned into inputs and outputs when what mattered was attentive presence. Using AI as a mirror enables course correction toward care and connection, even without perfection.

AI That Remembers, Legacy That Lives On AI remembers the stories, recipes, love songs, successes, failures, and voices you share, enabling digital avatars that converse with future generations. A grandmother avatar advises adding spices once the broth is simmering and the meat is tender, then recalls meeting grandpa at a market where a gifted orange—the sweetest—began their story. Echoing the Egyptian belief that we die twice—first physically and again when our name is no longer spoken—AI can help keep names and memories alive. The imperative stands: our systems don’t need to be more connected; we do, technology doesn’t need empathy; we do, and AI doesn’t need to be more human; we do.