8 episodes
Identity & Humanity
What it means to be human when machines can do almost everything.
EP 11Evelyn Chang
Your Lung Map Is a Week Old: Evelyn Chang on AI in Medical Robotics, Robotic Bronchoscopy, and Clinical Engineering
Evelyn Chang is a senior clinical engineer at Noah Medical, working on the Galaxy system — a robotic platform built to navigate the outermost edges of the human lung and biopsy nodules early. A Still Human conversation about what manual bronchoscopy loses, how a live fluoroscopy sweep gets reconstructed into 3D mid-procedure, where a clinician still has to confirm what the model sees, and why patient trust before and after may matter more than the procedure itself.
EP 10Ewen Shengyao Huang
Will AI Replace Doctors? Ewen Huang on Causal AI, CRISPR, and What Medicine Can't Automate
Ewen Shengyao Huang is an M.D. candidate at National Taiwan University who has analyzed autoimmune data from 97 million COVID patients and worked on CRISPR gene delivery for inherited blindness at Columbia. A Still Human conversation about using AI as a memory palace rather than a shortcut, what causal AI means for medical research, and the bedside moment no model could have taught him.
EP 09Neil Gawande
Building AI for Human Connection: Neil Gawande on Belonging, Perception, and Five Companies by 20
Neil Gawande started five companies by 20 — from a GPS tracker for seniors to The Block, a personal AI assistant he calls 'ClaudeBot for regular people.' A Still Human conversation about building AI for human connection, belonging as a computational problem, being a third culture kid who belongs nowhere, and what we quietly lose by building too fast.
EP 08William Norden
William Norden: Building Neural Networks from Scratch in C and What Most AI Engineers Skip
A Still Human conversation with William Norden — Research Engineer at Santa Clara University, neuromorphic computing researcher, and the rare builder who writes neural networks in C from scratch. We get into the intelligence augmentation argument, the high-dimensional tapestry of global problems, and why Russian piano pedagogy and USTA tennis show up in his backpropagation.
EP 05Andrey Marey
Build Before You’re Ready: Andrey Marey on High-Agency, Discipline, and Refusing to Use AI With Friends
A 20-year-old serial founder on high-agency, why discipline beats motivation, and the one thing he refuses to ever let AI touch — covering NVIDIA, Vivora, FR8 Finland, and the framework that runs his career.
EP 04Bailley Georgieva
AI Is the Ultimate People Pleaser: Bailley Georgieva on Hypersonics, Critical Thinking, and What Stays Human at Mach 10
A 21-year-old hypersonic researcher on why AI is the ultimate people pleaser, the cost of complacency, and what stays human at Mach 10.
EP 03Krish Jajoo
We Are the Product: Krish Jajoo on Social Media, Silicon Valley Pressure, and Why Human Connection Still Wins
A Santa Clara sophomore on growing up in Silicon Valley, why social media made us the product, and where being human still beats every algorithm.
EP 02Michael Iwashima
Why AI Can’t Reason Over Time: Michael Iwashima on Brain-Computer Interfaces, Biosensors, and Building From Nothing
A bioengineer on why AI still can’t reason over time, what a soccer injury taught him about building from nothing, and where humans still matter most — brain-computer interfaces, biosensors, and accessibility tech.