Q&A: Insitro CEO Daphne Koller on ‘potentially destructive’ AI hype, Nvidia’s chips, and biotech’s data problem

SAN JOSE, CA — For all its promise, ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence has rou­tine­ly fall­en in­to the hype trap.

Daphne Koller, a self-de­scribed “OG AI per­son,” hopes biotech can steer clear this time around, while not be­ing par­tic­u­lar­ly op­ti­mistic her­self about the chances of tamp­ing down ex­cite­ment to healthy lev­els. Koller, 55, has been work­ing in AI for about three decades, start­ing as a Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty pro­fes­sor in 1995 and join­ing Al­pha­bet’s biotech Cal­i­co Life Sci­ences as its chief com­put­ing of­fi­cer in 2016.

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