# 447 AI Acubot Dispatch • Vanessa Menendez Covelo

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Podcast: [Qiological Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/qiological-podcast-915251)
Published: 2026-02-10T05:15:00+00:00
Episode link: https://qiological.com
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## Resource

In clinical work pattern and intuition inform each other, treatment decisions arise somewhere between what we can measure and what we can only sense. This episode investigates that in-between space, where “knowing” as a human and the patterning of Large Language Models merges in uncanny ways. Vanessa Menendez-Covelo has been a guest on the podcast and recently she’s been exploring the ever changing frontier of AI, as both a former computer scientist and actively practicing acupuncturist. Listen into this discussion as we explore how AI “hallucinations” might be creative sparks of fertile imagination; what a tongue-reading machine in a café might mean for diagnosis; the uneasy line between health equity and surveillance; and why shame, not ignorance, may be the real barrier to better care.

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