{"podcast":{"title":"Future Around & Find Out","slug":"future-around-find-out-5737933","podcast_index_feed_id":5737933,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/crafted","website_url":"https://www.futurearound.com","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/gD8iOGSiDcJm2QgXx2W6kaWRvL95HjrwO4xyp5-KAX4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82YTcx/YWIxYzkxYjgwNWI4/MTc5NGYyNjliZjU5/NzQ4MC5qcGc.jpg","author":"Modern Product Minds, LLC","episode_count":131,"summary":"* Winner of the 2026 Webby Award for Best Technology Podcast * Future Around & Find Out helps builders think clearly about AI and emerging technologies, grapple with the implications, and decide what to build next. Independent technologist and former NPR journalist Dan Blumberg speaks with founders, makers, and you to celebrate breakthroughs, call BS on the hype, explore how things might go sideways — and how we can steer the future in the right direction. On Tuesdays, we interview the builders changing how we work, live, and play. On FAFO Fridays, futurist Kwaku Aning joins Dan for a playful recap of the week in tech, including the amazing, the scary, and the strange. You’ll also hear about innovations that too often get overshadowed by AI, including in deep tech, biotech, fintech, quantum computing, robotics, blockchain, and more. Across it all, you’ll hear sharp takes on what comes next and what builders need to know now. So let’s Future Around & Find Out together! https://www.FutureAround.com","last_synced_at":"2026-06-14T08:21:54.976983+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-around-find-out-5737933"},"episode":{"title":"\"I just want AI to replace me as a scientist\" | The co-founder of Diagnostic Robotics predicts the future","slug":"i-just-want-ai-to-replace-me-as-a-scientist-the-co-founder-of-diagnostic-robotics-predicts-the-future","published_at":"2026-02-24T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-around-find-out-5737933/i-just-want-ai-to-replace-me-as-a-scientist-the-co-founder-of-diagnostic-robotics-predicts-the-future","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-around-find-out-5737933","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/0b7fc9d8","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/0b7fc9d8/c480edf4.mp3","summary":"Of all the industries AI will transform, Kira Radinsky believes chemistry and biology will change the most. Kira is the co-founder and CTO of Diagnostic Robotics, which uses AI to automate the administrative work that's crushing healthcare teams — so clinicians can actually focus on patients. She's also the co-founder of Mana.bio, where they're accelerating drug discovery by orders of magnitude. She'll tell you she's terrible in the lab. Not because she isn't brilliant, but because she can't pipette without killing the cells. So she’s thrilled that thanks to her skills in data and AI she was able to realize her childhood dream of being a scientist: “I'm not trying to automate everything… Like when, when you say automate drug discovery, I'm not gonna discover everything. I just want to accelerate it, which comes back to my childhood dream: I just didn't want to do it myself. I just want AI to replace me as a scientist. That's it.” But this episode is about more than healthcare. It's about how to build systems that get smarter over time — feedback loops, causal inference, incentivizing algorithms to take risks, and knowing when to optimize for ROI instead of accuracy. Lessons that apply whether you're building in biotech or not. We cover: How growing up Jewish in Soviet Ukraine — and fleeing to Israel just before the Gulf War — shaped Kira's obsession with predicting the future How she built a system that successfully predicted real-world events, including Cuba's first cholera outbreak in Cuba in 130 years How Mana.bio is using AI to build \"rocketships\" that deliver drugs to the right cells — and how they've done in three months what used to take 20 years Why predictions are only valuable if there's something you can do about them — and why that makes healthcare an ideal…","meta_description":"Of all the industries AI will transform, Kira Radinsky believes chemistry and biology will change the most. 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