In late 2016, Hugh Harvey was working as a consultant doctor on the UK’s National Health Service.
He had dabbled in machine learning while doing a research degree, and had seen the potential for artificial intelligence to revolutionize health care.
But he felt strongly that the introduction of AI into medicine was not going to come from the government, and so when an opportunity opened up at a new health-tech startup, Babylon Health, he applied.
Founded in London by Ali Parsa and former bankers, Babylon had a lofty goal: it wanted to do with health care what Google did with information; that is, make it freely and easily available to everyone.
When Harvey joined the company in 2016, it was already picking up tens of millions in venture capital funding.
The company’s value was in its grand ambition to add on an AI-powered symptom checker, which would speed up—or even automate—diagnoses.
Harvey was taken in by the lavish setup of the
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