Harvey Castro, MD, MBA.

ChatGPT Healthcare Advisor • Physician with Executive MBA • AI in Healthcare Author Ex-CEO & Physician, aiding in AI's healthcare integration. Empowering physicians, patients, authoring the AI in healthcare revolution.

Confused on AI implementation? We help 👋 | Top AI Voice | Founder of Everyday AI, a Top 10 Tech Podcast | AI Strategist | AI Consultant | AI Keynote Speaker | Helping companies leverage GenAI

At 2 a.m. in the ER, I rely on seconds; soon I’ll depend on satellites. I’m Dr. Harvey Castro, the physician-futurist fusing AI, clinical data, and orbital sensors to predict illness before symptoms strike.

For 20 years, I treated crisis after it walked through the doors. Today I’m flipping that script: harnessing generative AI, ambient wearables, and space-borne imaging to keep patients out of the ER entirely.

Impact so far
• 40+ emergency departments using AI triage blueprints → 18 % faster door-to-doctor time  
• Tackling the $34 B fall-injury problem as Chief Medical AI Officer at Helpp.ai  
• Advisory work for the Singapore Ministry of Health & Texas Medical Association policy shaping for 21 million citizens  
• 4× TEDx & CES main-stage speaker; research cited in JAMA and MIT Tech Review  
• Co-architecting Phantom Space medical-payload program, turning lunar telemetry into oncology insights.

How can we work together
🔹 Bespoke AI-transformation projects let’s deploy tech that moves your company’s metrics.
🔹 Keynotes & board briefings on orbit-to-operating-room innovation  
🔹 Executive advisory retainers from proof-of-concept to FDA clearance

Ready to explore orbit-to-operating-room innovation?  
DM me here.

Let’s turn satellites, sensors, and software into healthier humans.

Chief Executive Officer

Medical Intelligence Ops, where we are pioneering the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into healthcare. Our physician-led team is committed to transforming patient care and hospital operations through intelligent solutions.

Building Digital Legacies: What Ancient Engineering Taught Me About #AI

Most healthcare AI systems won’t last 10 years.

Standing in front of #Petra, that realization hit me hard.

This structure was carved directly into stone more than 2,000 years ago.
No software updates.
No quarterly roadmaps.
No rush to deploy.

It wasn’t built for speed.
It was built to endure.

In healthcare AI, we’re in our own carving phase right now.

We’re shaping algorithms, data pipelines, and digital infrastructure that will define how medicine is practiced long after we’re gone.

But here’s the uncomfortable question:

Are we building for longevity or just for launch?

• Are our data foundations solid enough to evolve?
• Are ethics designed in, or patched on later?
• Will these systems still deserve trust when incentives change?

The Nabataeans understood something we rarely talk about in AI:

Alignment between builders, purpose, and consequences.

They thought about impact before carving the stone.

As we carve the future of healthcare AI,
what consequence do you think we’re most at risk of ignoring?

#AIinHealthcare #MedicalAI #DigitalHealth #Longevity #DrGPT

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Everyone keeps saying:

“Don’t worry, there’s a human in the loop.”

That phrase is becoming dangerously meaningless.

In theory, a human in the loop means:
A person understands what the AI is doing
Can intervene in time
And has real authority to stop it

In practice, here’s what it often means:
• The AI moves faster than human review
• The human rubber-stamps outputs they didn’t generate
• Oversight exists on paper, not in reality

Medicine has seen this before.

When alerts fire constantly, clinicians stop *seeing* them.
When systems feel reliable, supervision quietly erodes.
Not because people are careless because cognition is finite.

AI didn’t remove humans from the loop.
It **thinned the loop** until it became symbolic.

The uncomfortable question leaders need to ask:
Is your human actually supervising  or just absorbing liability?

Real oversight requires:
Time to understand decisions
Interfaces designed for comprehension, not speed
Clear moments where AI must pause and wait
And explicit ownership when things go wrong

If your AI can act faster than a human can meaningfully intervene,
you don’t have a human in the loop.

You have a **human on the receipt**.

The next phase of AI maturity won’t be about smarter models.
It will be about **honest governance**.
#DrGPT

AI won’t transform #healthcare by 2026.
#Trust will.

I’ve seen this future up close not in pitch decks, but in exam rooms, ER hallways, and hospital systems struggling to change.

The infographic you’re seeing captures the tension perfectly.

AI is advancing fast.
Healthcare systems… aren’t.

Here’s what I believe #2026 will actually look like:

What AI will get right
	•	Augmenting primary care where access is broken
	•	Expanding beyond imaging into cognitive specialties
	•	Reducing decision fatigue in complex, high-stakes care

What could hold it back
	•	Bureaucracy that moves slower than technology
	•	AI that adds cost instead of value
	•	Systems deployed without clinician or patient trust

As a physician, this part matters most to me:

AI that succeeds won’t feel like software.
It will feel like a quiet second set of eyes supportive, transparent, and accountable.

No replacement.
No hype.
Just better decisions, made together.

If we get trust right, AI scales care.
If we don’t, it becomes just another abandoned tool.

What would increase your #trust in healthcare AI right now?

(If you are at #CES this week reach out. I am here covering the advances at CES in medicine. )

Harvey Castro, MD, MBA.  
#DrGPT
#HealthcareAI #TrustInAI #DigitalHealth #FutureOfMedicine

The Era of the #DigitalTwin

This isn’t a chatbot update.
It’s the beginning of the patient digital twin.

OpenAI’s interactions are shifting.
Connect your labs. Link your records. Ask better questions. (ChatGPT health)

But that framing misses what’s actually happening.
For the first time, a mainstream AI is being positioned as a persistent health intelligence layer.

In medicine, we know the difference immediately.
Tools answer questions. Systems carry memory.
And memory is where healthcare changes.

When an AI can:
• Understand longitudinal lab trends
• Track medication changes over time
• Recall prior decisions, not just recent prompts
You’re no longer talking to software.
You’re interacting with a model of yourself.
That’s the definition of a digital twin.
Not a sci-fi replica. A living, updating representation of risk, physiology, and context.
But this is where the stakes rise.

When AI becomes longitudinal, three things matter more than accuracy:
1. Privacy architecture
2. Consent boundaries
3. Governance over "memory"
A stateless AI can be wrong and forgotten.

A stateful AI a digital twin must be accountable.

Here is the hard truth:

The future of healthcare AI isn’t about smarter answers. It’s about durable understanding.

A digital twin doesn’t replace your doctor. It remembers what the system forgets.

That’s powerful. And dangerous if done poorly.
Which is why I’m not just writing about this I’m building the guardrails for it.

Today, I’m sharing a physician-led initiative to ensure we set the rules that AI follows.

AI Assists. Licensed Humans Decide.
I am also currently developing my own Personal Digital Twin not just to test the tech, but to stress-test the ethics, the privacy, and the governance frameworks firsthand.

We cannot outsource the definition of "patient safety" to an algorithm.

Join the conversation on governance and human oversight here:

www.chatgpthealth.com

#DrGPT #DigitalTwin #HealthcareAI #PatientSafety #MedicalEthics #PhysicianLed

Open article: ChatGPT Health | AI Governance in Healthcare by chatgpthealth.com

ChatGPT Health | AI Governance in Healthcare

Your brain already has a bartender.
Most of us let urgency decide what gets poured.

In healthcare, leadership, and tech, I see the same pattern repeat:

The Devil’s Cocktail.

• Fast #dopamine constant alerts, scrolling, artificial urgency

• Chronic #cortisol always “on,” never fully recovered

• Short-term output that quietly erodes judgment and health

It looks like productivity.
It often ends in burnout.

There’s another option one grounded in biology, not motivation.

I call it the Angel’s Cocktail.

• Slow dopamine → exercise, learning, building things that compound
• #Oxytocin → trust, presence, real human connection
• #Serotonin → sunlight, nutrition, gratitude, stability

#Burnout isn’t a willpower problem.
It’s an environment problem.

And #AI is now part of that environment.

Used well, AI removes friction, restores time, and lowers cognitive load.
Used poorly, it adds surveillance, alerts, and another layer of “always on.”

Same technology.
Very different neurochemical outcome.

As an ER physician, I see what happens when we ignore this long enough.
As someone working at the edge of AI and medicine, I’m reminded that humans still run on biology and it matters.

High performance isn’t about grinding harder.
It’s about designing systems including AI that respect how the human brain actually works.

Before the day runs you,
before the tech runs you 

What are you choosing to pour?

Source & inspiration: High on Life by David JP Phillips  

— Harvey Castro, MD (DrGPT)
Chief AI Officer, Phantom Space
Disclaimer: Educational content only. Not intended as medical advice or individual diagnosis.

#Leadership #PhysicianBurnout #HealthcareAI #Neurochemistry #HumanCenteredAI #Longevity #FutureOfHealth #DrGPT

#AI didn’t just answer a question this week.
It took responsibility.

That may sound subtle. It isn’t.

For years, we’ve told ourselves AI was “just a tool.”
Helpful. Assistive. Advisory.

Then Claude was given a task:
Keep a living system alive.

No prompts.
No daily instructions.
No human hovering.

Claude monitored soil moisture from multiple probes.
It analyzed light exposure.
It adjusted temperature, humidity, CO₂.
It decided on its own when to water, how much to water, and when to wait.

A tomato plant named Sol is now alive because an AI system exercised judgment.

That’s not a demo.
That’s a boundary crossing.

In medicine, we recognize this moment instantly.

This is the same transition we saw when clinical decision support moved from “suggesting” to “executing.”
When autopilot went from assisting pilots to flying planes.
When order sets stopped advising clinicians and started shaping outcomes.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth healthcare learned the hard way:

AI doesn’t eliminate risk.
It relocates it.

Once a system acts, responsibility doesn’t disappear it concentrates.

And that’s where healthcare becomes the blueprint for every other industry.

We already know what happens when autonomy arrives:
• You need escalation paths, not just accuracy metrics
• You need accountability models, not just performance charts
• You need governance before failure, not after harm

This is why healthcare AI will never be “move fast and break things.”

A broken interface is annoying.
A broken clinical action is irreversible.

What Claude did with a tomato plant is charming.
What it previews for healthcare is profound.

Because the next systems won’t be watering plants.

They’ll be:
• Adjusting insulin delivery
• Titrating ventilator settings
• Prioritizing patient outreach
• Managing chronic disease workflows at scale

And when that happens, the real question won’t be:
“Is the AI smart enough?”

It will be:
“Who is accountable when the system decides?”

Here’s the line I want leaders to sit with:

Autonomy isn’t about intelligence.
It’s about responsibility.

Or put more bluntly:

What seems autonomous often just hides the author.

Healthcare has already lived through AI’s future.
The rest of the world is just arriving.

So I’ll ask the question most organizations are avoiding:

When your AI acts without asking 
who signs the chart?

#DrGPT #AI #HealthcareAI #AutonomousSystems #PatientSafety #MedicalEthics

#POWER × #INTEGRITY Part 2 of 5
People don’t move on truth alone.

Power rarely announces itself as force.

More often, it shows up as incentives, fear, identity, and timing.

The next set of laws exposes a hard truth:
People don’t act because something is right.
They act because it aligns with self-interest or survival.

This matters deeply in healthcare and AI.

You can design the safest system imaginable 
and still fail if you ignore who feels threatened, sidelined, or exposed.

Ethical leadership isn’t naïve.
It’s perceptive.

Good intentions don’t override human nature.
Good design accounts for it.

This is Part 2 of a 5-part series.
If you missed Part 1, it’s on my profile. More coming tomorrow.

#Leadership #AIinHealthcare #StrategicThinking #ResponsibleAI #PowerAndIntegrity #DrGPT

We are incredibly excited to have Harvey Castro, MD, MBA. joining us as a speaker at the Digital Health & AI Innovation Summit (DHAI).

#DHAI2026 brings together leading voices from across Providers, Health Systems, Biotech,  MedTech, Pharma, Biomedical Science, and Venture Capital, alongside the Payers and Policy Makers who shape our industry.

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#FutureofHealth #DigitalHealth #AIinHealthcare #MedicalAI #HealthVentures #FutureOfHealth #GenerativeAI #ChatGPTHealthcare #EmergencyMedicine

#Burnout doesn’t come from failure.
It comes from misalignment.

I see it constantly.

People who look successful on paper
but feel depleted in real life.

Clinicians.
Leaders.
High performers who did “everything right” and still feel off.

That tension is why I built the Born to Win Framework.

Not as motivation.
But as a way to succeed without sacrificing your health or your humanity.

Here’s what most goal-setting systems miss:

You don’t burn out from working too hard.
You burn out from living out of balance.

What this framework is really about:

• Character is the frame
When values crack, everything eventually collapses.

• Balance is the engine
If health, family, or inner life is neglected, momentum disappears.

• Vision gives direction
Effort without clarity drains energy instead of creating progress.

• Goals connect action to meaning
Motion alone isn’t success. Purposeful motion is.

And this part took me years to learn:

Success isn’t something you achieve once.
It’s something you maintain.

Daily.
Through will, skill, and intentional refill.

That’s why service sits at the center of it all.

When your growth helps others grow,
success becomes sustainable.

If you paused for a moment and were honest.
which part of your life needs realignment right now?

#HealthcareLeadership  
#PhysicianWellbeing  
#PurposeDriven  
#HighTechHighHeart  
#LeadershipDevelopment

#POWER × #INTEGRITY: Part 5 of 5
Power isn’t the problem. Blindness is.

This week I shared a reflection on The 48 Laws of Power.

Not as tactics.
Not as manipulation.
But as forces already shaping leadership, healthcare, and AI.

Here’s the synthesis:

Power is inevitable.
Integrity is optional and that’s the risk.

Power without integrity becomes dangerous.
Integrity without power becomes ineffective.

The leaders we trust don’t deny power.
They discipline it.

They understand the system 
so the system doesn’t quietly control them.

Understanding power isn’t corruption.
It’s responsibility.

If you found this series useful, share it with your team.
I’ll be building next on AI autonomy, governance, and trust at scale.

#Leadership #AIinHealthcare #ResponsibleAI #Governance #PowerAndIntegrity #DrGPT

One leadership lesson I’m carrying forward as DrGPT:

Your story isn’t a distraction from strategy.
It is the strategy.

I’ve been reflecting on insights from @tazhart on YouTube, and this one landed hard—especially for leaders in medicine, AI, and high-stakes systems.

Here’s the truth many leaders miss:

• The story you hesitate to share is often the one that creates trust
• Data informs, but story mobilizes
• Without connection, leadership falls flat—no matter how smart the plan

There’s real science behind this.
Character-driven stories trigger oxytocin (trust), dopamine (focus), and endorphins (connection).
Storytelling doesn’t just persuade—it changes biology.

What stood out most:

Storytelling doesn’t need to be long.
It just needs to be yours.

A simple framework I’m keeping:
• Set the scene
• Share the shift
• Offer the spark

In healthcare and AI, we talk endlessly about strategy, models, and systems.
But people don’t follow frameworks.
They follow humans.

Your story is the one leadership asset no one else can replicate.
And in the next era of leadership, that may matter more than ever.

Credit: @tazhart (YouTube)

#DrGPT #Leadership #Storytelling #AuthenticLeadership #AILeadership #HealthcareLeadership #HumanCenteredAI #ExecutivePresence #Trust #Communication #FutureOfWork

#POWER × #INTEGRITY: Part 3 of 5
How you show up is part of the system.

Power isn’t only external.

It’s expressed through identity, restraint, consistency, and emotional control.

These laws remind us that #credibility is not declared it’s #perceived.

In healthcare and emerging technology:
overconfidence erodes trust,
performative certainty raises suspicion,
loud authority ages poorly.

True leadership feels steady, not frantic.

Authority doesn’t rush.
It reassures.

Integrity shows up not in perfection,
but in how calmly someone carries responsibility.

This is Part 3 of a 5-part series.

Follow for Part 4 tomorrow and share with someone leading under pressure.

#Leadership #Trust #HealthcareLeadership #ResponsibleAI #PowerAndIntegrity #DrGPT

Cory Warfield

My reach could be yours too {2.5M+ imp/mo to 500K+ followers of AI, Tech, Sales, Entrepreneurship} e/acc; p(Doom) = [loading]. Podcaster/Investor/Author/Speaker/Amplifier/Impactor. LLMs, LWMs, LAMs. Opinions are my own.

I’m a nut. I lost a recording contract in 1997 when another caucasian rapper from the midwest started gaining popularity, and it knocked me off my perceived trajectory back then.

I did a stint as a software tester at Rand McNally when I was let go from the label, while simultaneously building websites and chat forums that I facilitated - mostly in the online hip-hop space. I then became a metrologist (science of weights and measures) at Searle Pharmaceutical Research, while still fronting bands that were booked for some fun gigs around the midwest, but never beyond.

But ultimately “not making it” as a “rockstar” really set me on an anomalous “career trajectory”. I ended up working in restaurants - initially as a dishwasher, then a busboy, then waiter, then bartender, then manager. I got certified as a sommelier, did the corporate wine director thing, helped open a top-tier steakhouse, and ultimately burnt out on being a “servant in the castle” (no judgement).

So I studied entrepreneurship, machine learning, brushed back up on coding, and was fortunate to have cofounded a B2B SaaS company using data to help restaurants schedule more predictably. We raised several rounds of funding, and I was ultimately able to exit that company (after a Forbes feature, recognition from BuiltIn, national media and more) to pursue what had helped me start and scale the company - LinkedIn.

As a LinkedIn Top Voice with over a half-million followers and a newsletter here with over 200k subscribers, I now coach executives, founders, speakers and authors to become influencers here and to turn that into a perpetual pipeline for inbound opportunities.

I’ve also gone on to help cofound and join tech companies at an early stage in the venture studio space (DCRBN), music tech space (We J, Starchild), proof of humanhood space (VRFD), seemingly conscious AI (LovingIs AI), phygital intelligence (Phyll), Space Exploration (Ascend), and I am a proud Entrepreneur In Residence at the Founder Institute where I was a co-managing director and Mentor in Excellence (3x).

I do occasionally angel invest as well as help startups raise capital, I’ve helped onboard Grammy winning multiplatinum artists to some of my ventures, I am a public speaker available via PepTalk agency, and a persona here on LinkedIn obsessed with UBI, AI on the blockchain, dogs, music, and community.

If you perceive alignment, feel free to reach out. I’m also currently quietly scaling a virtual influencer agency in the baby space. Happy to sync.

President

After serving on the Board of Directors at World Game Changers for some time and learning how powerful their work and team are, completely buying into the vision and initiatives, and deeply understanding how emergent technologies can help the organization further our commitments and humanitarian work, I have humbly accepted the appointment to President, and am eager to continue the incredible and much needed work this organization has been facilitating for years. 

In 2018 we had coworking; in 2026 we have Cowork. We work, just differently… and this will likely be a throughline throughout the year. Up for a good read? I invite you to dig into Tech For Good issue 39. Enjoy!

Cory  Warfield

This issue’s headline isn’t hyperbole – things are truly changing. From advancements with CRISPR, in humanoid robots becoming far more lifelike in vir

Open article: Things are fundamentally changing in AI – what we all  by Cory Warfield • 7 min read

Things are fundamentally changing in AI – what we all

“We’ve seen this movie before”… robots that can build themselves sounds like an absolutely terrible idea to most of us, but here we are.

It’s important to truly take stock of where we are at societally – humanoid robots are now available to rent for home use, flying cars can be purchased & flown, both quantum chips & quantum computing are becoming commercial (you can literally use IBM’s quantum computing for free right now), Google has edge AI available locally for free & has launched licensing at skills.google.com, while OpenAI is also launching a jobboard alongside their own certification program.

The future of work will not look anything like what the workscape has for generations, nor will the human condition from lifespan, experience, healthcare, likely quality of life in many regards. “It’s quite a time to be alive” indeed.

There’s legitimate cause for concern as the machines develop recursive learning, some systems are beginning to show the potential for time travel which could have implications on our reality too, but sufficient reasons for optimism as well (I have a talk on intelligence & how it could usher in ‘near immortality’, the potential for time travel etc that’s still relevent & interesting though 1.5 years old – quick 15-min watch if you want to dive deeper on some this this here https://lnkd.in/gWqUsDnJ).

Genuinely the next few years will belong to those who know the right tools to use, & how to use them. For 2026 I’ve switched my core offering from coaching individuals 1:1 to become LinkedIn influencers with strategies to monetize that, to 10-person cohorts (one per month) where I teach the 10 members the LinkedIn stuff I’ve taught my private clients & we work on all’s strategies collectively while I also teach about tools to use for everything from website & presentation design to building apps, filling pipelines, training & deploying agents & more.

Seats are $1,000, are obviously very limited, & require approval as I’m highly selective (I put my personal brand behind those with whom I work, also I don’t support directly competitive persona, etc), so while they’re not ‘first come first served’, once I’ve accepted the ten people into it, enrollment is closed.

So while I can’t inherently teach us how to safeguard against self-building robots (maybe self-healing soon too – a Japanese company just revealed their glass that repairs itsself when broken; also we see human brain stem cells generating compute, so it’s not beyond the scope possible for robots to soon have biologic brains, possibly organs as well), I can teach how to do things like be discovered in LLMs as a recommendation (GEO - generative e fine optimization; a really big deal right now), go viral on LinkedIn (& other social medias), how to automate much of your repetitive workflow, how to scale ventures, & am building communities simultaneously. I welcome you to apply if it resonates.

🎥 VC: @robo_tuo X

#techforgood #ai #growth

How vibe-coded apps work. 😂🤣 
(🎥/✍🏼 as seen on @chatgptricks IG)

We hear that ‘age is just a number’, but it’s proven out all the time when we see this level of talent, competence & confidence across the spectrum.

This little crooner hitting these notes like a professional is Bug, a 4 year old girl who’s become a viral sensation alongside her mom Brooke. Bug (Kiera) has Septo Optic Dyaplasia, Nystagmus & autism, which has presented the duo with obstacles, challenges, & perceived setbacks, but they’ve chosen to prevail, overcome, & tap-in to Bug’s potential – sharing her music, talent, & presence with the world. Initially going viral with her rendition of a Selene Dion song, this rendition of M.J.’s “Man in the Mirror” is nothing short of remarkable.

As we inch closer to what many experts are calling a “post-labor economy” (there will be a transitional period, & we may never truly ‘fully get there’, but tools like Claude Cowork show us how close we may be getting), I’ve been adamantly discussing & postulating that there are 2 skills that everyone – of all ages – should be focusing on:

developing an ENTREPRENEURIAL mindset, & a personal brand.

Of the 2, becoming entrepreneurial minded is far more critical, in my opinion, but both are going to be key drivers of most’s success in this new future we are entering en masse.

Being entrepreneurially minded doesn’t inherently mean starting a company & trying to become a unicorn; rather, it refers to being able to find solutions to problems you experience (or see others experience), create the solutions when you don’t find ones readily available, to be able to rally resources as needed (capital, whether human, financial, material etc.), & to be able to identify ways to make money for yourself by providing value & finding the intersection of that & being compensated, without reliance on a W2 ft position.

Being a personal brand refers to strategically being known in the right circles for something specific – putting yourself out there for opportunities to present themselves to you.

Brooke&bug (@brooke3932 / TT) have done an amazing job with their personal brand, as well as forging a path forward for themselves with an entrepreneurial mindset – they have a lot to keep up with, as Bug requires daily hormones & care; but as the saying goes ‘where there’s a will, there’s a way’.

We can all glean much from this example, reminder, & stark message as we truly experience the human condition changing around us, at scale, in real time.

As a 1:1 coach, as well as now leading 10-person group coaching cohorts monthly, I help individuals become personal brands, influencers, cultivate their entrepreneurial mindsets, as well as learn the best-in-class available tools for their specific offerings (I teach generative engineering optimization GEO, agentic workflows, vibe-whatever, digital twins, digital employees, agentic agency et al on a case-by-case basis). DMs open.

Wishing YOU a great week ahead.

🎥 VC: @brooke3932 TT

#techforgood #growth #personalbranding #geo #ai #mindset

Perhaps we don’t need to work for someone else afterall. We can all draw from Khabi’s playbook that just took him from $0 – $1B in 5 years *building a personal brand* *without saying a word*. EPIC!

First, huge congrats to Khabi Lame, the world’s biggest TikTokker at over 160M followers, for his recent exit for $900–975M. This is a record smasher & has massive implications for creators, & those building personal brands.

Downsized from a factory job due to Covid in 2020, Khabi downloaded TikTok instead of seeking another job. Lacking customary setups like ring lights, quality microphones (& other items many others use their lack of to not go for it with their own personal brands), Khabi used his cell phone with a cracked screen, propped against a water bottle, to start reacting to others’ over-the-top “life hack” videos on social media. By not speaking, but rather being expressive nonverbally, Khabi was able to appeal to a global audience, rather than be restricted to a specific population.

By being relatable & bringing joy to his fans via humor, he starting pushing numbers that earned him brand sponsorship by companies like HUGO BOSS & Binance, as well as substantial ad revenue (aka OpenAI’s new business model.

The size of the acquisition is staggering, a result of his face, identity & audience being valuable assets, & the deal comes with his digital avatar & brand in perpetuity.

This video is cool, because we actually hear him speak to his fan, legendary artist Devon Rodriguez, thanking him, but his nonverbal viral videos have become his brand. Charlie Chaplin was a global movie star of his era who also didn’t speak – Charlie amazed amassed a fortune of $100M, a relative $500M in today’s dollars, but notably Khabi went to zero to double that in 5 years without having to go that same “corporate route”.

To me the lessons here are priceless – be authentic, put yourself out there, find your unique zone of genius, own it, don’t worry about naysayers, don’t wait until you’re ready, & also: know your audience & pick your platform.

For Khabi, being let go was the best thing to happen to him – but because he accepted it as a new beginning.

Although I’m about 160M followers behind him, & at least $899M lol, as a personal brand & content creator myself, I’m inspired to the fullest. I also would be remiss if I didn’t mention that I coach others to become viral personal brands here on LinkedIn as well. DMs always open.

I also applaud artist Devon here, who’s almost at 10M followers on IG, for following his dreams, honing his talents, putting himself out there as a creator & personal brand as well, bring joy to others in personal as well as digitally, vicariously. There are no shortages of ways to monetize a personal brand – but it does take getting started, & having both vision & strategy.

So again, cheers, Khabi. You’ve achieved something truly remarkable – I’m looking forward to seeing what’s next for you.

🎥 VC: @devonrodriguezart IG

Want to see something cool? We all know we’re ’in a moment’ where AI is capable of quite a bit, but the results are usually directly commensurate to the level of human talent behind it. Said differently, the tools alone aren’t enough – it requires capable, talented, trained, & (& this can’t be emphasized enough) CREATIVE people who can push the boundaries of what’s possible.

This morning I’d seen a fun Pixar-style short video of a dog returning a VHS tape in IG, & almost posted it here as a testament to how great AI video generation has become; the caption marveled that it took the “AI director only 8 days”. Then it hit me that our team at DCRBN, at the helm of our own AI director & protégé Bret Jenny, had even better AI films that truly showcase what’s possible, such as this trailer he made for a fictitious movie, “El Patron” (it took him less than a week, too, but it’s not a contest lol).

I hope to convey several messages here with this epic video, namely:
• yes, the tools ARE really ‘that good’ now, if we know which ones to use & how to use them
• to get superior results we need not only mastery of the tools, but our human creativity that transcends training models
• industries are already actively being disrupted; our collective preparedness is mission critical

To see more of Bret’s work, & to potentially work with him on creative, ads, campaigns, shows etc., check out https://6frame.com (oh, he makes websites too – this site is so beautiful). Also, at DCRBN we are a venture studio who help startups we believe in raise, scale, build, strategize, migrate to blockchain, & exit (learn more at https://dcrbn.io). We have an extensive team of highly accomplished fractional C-suite from CGO (growth), CRO (revenue), CIO (investment), CFO (financial), CTO (technology), CMO (marketing), CGO (growth), CDO (data), CSO (strategy), CLCO (legal compliance) and more to help our portcos.

A big paradigm shift that is underway that we are focused on at DCRBN for our clients if GEO – generative engine optimization, the “what’s next” for SEO. As fewer & fewer of us use search engines, opting instead for LLMs, the old “do-follow, high-domain, long tail keywords” methodology is rendered obsolete, replaced by embedding in the AI models.

I am teaching GEO in my small monthly cohorts this year as well – every month I’m leading a 10-person group coaching where I work with all 10 members to go viral routinely on LinkedIn with strategies to monetize their influence, how to find & master the best AI tools for their specific usecases, how to build (products, apps, sites, videos, music, agentic workflows, et al), how to fill their pipelines with inbound opportunities (leads, speaking engagements, jobs, investment, more). Seats are $1K usd each; I’m currently interviewing for February’s cohort. DM/message with interest.

I hope this video entertained & inspired you. It’s amazing to see what amazing people with AI tools are capable of.

#techforgood #aigenerated #ai

Here we are. While there are definitely ways that we can tell these videos aren’t genuine, seeing “me” rap about LinkedIn viral growth, Google Notebook LM & my current cohort in a 55-second video generated by OpenAI’s Sora may hold several ‘unlocks’, even as we see more AI platforms releasing video generation functionality, & anticipate a potentially big AI newsweek ahead.

To begin, we know this isn’t real because I’m legitimately a better rapper than these AI generated snippets (also, when making AI music I at least write my own lyrics, but I didn’t write these), & because of the Sora watermarks (I for one won’t remove these in the name of transparency). There’s also an extra hand in one one-second scene (first person to send me a correct screenshot wins my viral growth masterclass I sell otherwise for $750).

But it’s also very peculiar to me how much the mannerisms, inflection, even delivery & pronunciations here, as well as in all my Sora-generated cameos of me really do sound & seem so. much. like. me. It’s uncanny. Granted there are tons of videos of me online doing public speaking, rapping, doing interviews etc. so potentially the model was actually “trained on me” far beyond the minuscule trained Sora asks for to train our cameos; but it’s still just so noteworthy.

How did I get a 55 second video from Sora? You can generate videos at either 10- or 15- second lengths, but prior to posting them (on Sora; while they’re still drafts) you can select 2 at once to “splice” together, & can then even slice together sliced videos (that’s how these 4 ‘became 1’, though with no transitions).

Also, in these snippets 🎥 I rap about my viral growth coaching, as well as my new monthly group cohorts (10-people, $1K ea., less than 17% what I charge for my 1:1 coaching), as well as my 2024 & 2025 AI Tool of the Year, Google Notebook LM. I am teaching my private & group clients how to use Notebook for many things – critically, GEO (generative engine optimization), as well as all my other “AI tricks” & LinkedIn “growth hacks” to fill pipelines inbound. DMs open.

In AI news, Claude has opened Cowork to all Pro users now (was just Max), but it’s only available on the desktop version of Claude yet. Cowork will be one of the biggest disruptors of the year, & can use Remotion to generate fantastic videos with Claude (as well as learn to do anything you do online as you do, then do those tasks in perpetuity for you agentically). Groq and Meta both have video generators, & Google’s (Veo 3.1) is highly capable, but one of the things to look for out of Open AI soon (in addition to hardware & GPT 5.3!!🧄) is an emphasis on physics in their models (“not just language”) as they continue their quest to achieve AGI.

Finally, this week we anticipate finally officially hearing from Google DeepMind about what happened last year in Santa Barbara with their quantum AI chip, Willow (which I’ve reported on previously). STAY TUNED.

#aigenerated #techforgood #coryconnects #ai

There is speculation that several recent tech-experiments may have truly changed reality, our current timeline, & maybe even our pasts. Let’s dig in (also, this isn’t really me at 16 singing with a robot, but it was too fun not to share & the lyrics may resonate by the end of the post).

2025 Nobel Prize in Physics went to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, & John M. Martinis for their work with macroscopic quantum systems, tunneling, & energy quantisation in an electric circuit, showing potential for what some are calling “retrocausality” (for fellow nerds the formula is Pₓ = (F • T • K • S) / (N • Wₓ), legend of variables in the comments); for deeper reading check out (“Quantum Eden”).

But also late last year in Santa Barbara, Google DeepMind’s Willow (quantum chip) also exhibited what mathematically presents as having time traveled, & even as back as 2012 at CERN with the large hadron collider (LHC) there has been speculation that our human timeline may have shifted, or been broken”.

There’s more to all of this, but I’ll save it for the newsletter, which will have a quantum focus in light of what Groq & others are doing, but I do want to keep things moving in this post to OpenAI, who just announced their 2025 revenue which was (drumroll please)… $20B! That’s massive, & has scaled directly with their increase of compute – the more compute they have, the more products they can support, which makes more revenue, which gets more compute, et al.

They’re likely in the vicinity of break-even at $20B, which is a bit staggering, but they are rolling out ads as well as an $8/mo “go” program, & are launching a jobboard as well as licensing & certification (Google also is starting this – check out skills.google; in contrast to OpenAI, Google’s TTM is $400B), so 2026 could potentially be a $100B revenue year, with some of that being profit (also staggering in such short order).

So while this video is an AI generated (Sora) video of me and a robot doing a duet about pelle wanting to hire me, “giving me money to make money”, & not really me (I’m glad it doesn’t actually look like me as a teen, as “in this timeline” the video cameos of me on Sora really capture my essence, look, etc), why you may resonate with the lyrics is that now that my 10-person January coaching cohort is underway, I’m beginning to interview for the 10 who will comprise the February cohort.

Seats are $1K/ea, & members will become viral influencers here with personalized strategies to monetize it & fill their pipelines, but will also learn how to use AI to build products, content, pipeline, & especially to learn generative engine optimization (GEO, already replacing SEO & mission critical for brands though most are totally ignorant yet).

So while I myself don’t know if technology has actually changed our past, or to what extent it’s time traveled or how that’s impacted the current moment, but I do know that knowing tech right now can change our future present moments.

#aigenerated #ai

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