The question before the tools: What 20 years of research leadership reveals about AI strategy

In 2015, I found myself in a room with a pathologist, a disability historian, medical students and theatre artists, all staring at the same problem from completely different angles. We were exploring the case of Tarrare, an 18th-century French medical anomaly (he couldn’t stop eating) who died convinced that a golden fork lodged in his stomach was killing him. When his doctor performed the autopsy, no golden fork was ever found.