It's kind of like how people say AI isn't going to take your job, a human using AI will.

I think there will be a group of people who really use AI to facilitate their existing relationships in person.

We're all social animals, and I believe AI has a real place in helping us stay connected with others and help us feel like we're seen.

What do healthy people actually need to know?

Like, do they need all the signal?

Is there a risk of false positives, even false negatives that might come from over measuring

these kinds of signals?

Can startups compete with the large incumbent platforms?

Understanding where technology is headed requires looking around corners.

Our 2026 big ideas capture the areas we believe founders will be building toward in the new year ahead.

This episode is built around three big ideas where AI is moving next when the work is real and the stakes are high.

First, voice agents are becoming practical, deployable systems, not demos.

Second, in healthcare, AI pushes us from occasional checkups towards continuous monitoring,

which forces new standards of evidence and interpretation.

And third, as productivity becomes table stakes, consumer AI shifts towards connection, identity, and helping

people feel seen.

We'll start with the most concrete change you can already see in the market.

Voice agents moving from novelty to deployment.

Olivia Moore breaks down where enterprises are buying voice AI today, why it's showing

up first in regulator workflows, and how reliability,

compliance, and tracking turn voice into a true AI employee category. Here's Olivia.

I'm Olivia Moore, and I'm a partner on our AI applications investing team. My big idea for

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