Mark Zuckerberg & Dr. Priscilla Chan: Curing All Human Diseases & the Future of Health & Technology

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Science, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 136 minutes

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In this episode, my guests are Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta (formerly Facebook, Inc.), and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, M.D., co-founder and co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). We discuss how CZI plans to cure all human diseases by the end of this century by funding transformative projects and technologies at the intersection of biology, engineering, and artificial intelligence (AI). They describe their funding and development of Biohubs and the progress already underway to accelerate the understanding of cell function, pathways, and disease. Then, Mark discusses social media, its impact on mental health, and new tools for online experiences. We also discuss Meta’s virtual reality (VR), augmented and mixed reality tech, and how AI will soon completely transform our online and physical life experiences. This episode ought to interest anyone curious about biology, medicine, mental health, AI, and the future of technology and humanity. For the full show notes, including the episode transcript (available exclusively to Huberman Lab Premium members), please visit hubermanlab.com. The Brain Body Contract Tickets: https://www.hubermanlab.com/events Pre-sale password: HUBERMAN Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://drinkag1.com/huberman Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/huberman LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/huberman InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/huberman Momentous: https://livemomentous.com/huberman The Brain Body Contract Tickets: https://www.hubermanlab.com/events Timestamps (00:00:00) Mark Zuckerberg & Dr. Priscilla Chan (00:02:15) Sponsors: Eight Sleep & LMNT; The Brain Body Contract (00:05:35) Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) & Human Disease Research (00:08:51) Innovation & Discovery, Science & Engineering (00:12:53) Funding, Building Tools & Imaging (00:17:57) Healthy vs. Diseased Cells, Human Cell Atlas & AI, Virtual Cells (00:21:59) Single Cell Methods & Disease; CELLxGENE Tool (00:28:22) Sponsor: AG1 (00:29:53) AI & Hypothesis Generation; Long-term Projects & Collaboration (00:35:14) Large Language Models (LLMs), In Silico Experiments (00:42:11) CZI Biohubs, Chicago, New York (00:50:52) Universities & Biohubs; Therapeutics & Rare Diseases (00:57:23) Optimism; Children & Families (01:06:21) Sponsor: InsideTracker (01:07:25) Technology & Health, Positive & Negative Interactions (01:13:17) Algorithms, Clickbait News, Individual Experience (01:19:17) Parental Controls, Meta Social Media Tools & Tailoring Experience (01:24:51) Time, Usage & Technology, Parental Tools (01:28:55) Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality Experiences & Smart Glasses (01:36:09) Physical Exercise & Virtual Product Development (01:44:19) Virtual Futures for Creativity & Social Interactions (01:49:31) Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses: Potential, Privacy & Risks (02:00:20) Visual System & Smart Glasses, Augmented Reality (02:06:42) AI Assistants & Creators, Identity Protection (02:13:26) Zero-Cost Support, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, YouTube Feedback, Momentous, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac Disclaimer

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life.
0:06.0	I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
0:15.0	My guest today are Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan.
0:19.0	Mark Zuckerberg, as everybody knows, founded the company Facebook.
0:22.8	He is now the CEO of Meta,
0:25.1	which includes Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp,
0:27.6	and other technology platforms.
0:29.7	Dr. Priscilla Chan graduated from Harvard
0:32.1	and went on to do her medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco.
0:37.0	Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan are married and the co-founders of the CZI or Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic organization whose stated
0:46.0	goal is to cure all human diseases.
0:49.0	The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is accomplishing that by providing critical funding not available elsewhere,
0:54.4	as well as a novel framework for discovery of the basic functioning of cells,
0:59.4	cataloging all the different human cell types,
1:02.3	as well as providing AI or artificial
1:04.6	intelligence platforms to mine all of that data to discover new pathways and
1:08.8	cures for all human diseases. The first hour of today's discussion is held with both Dr.
1:14.7	Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg during which we discuss the CZI and what it really
1:19.3	means to try and cure all human diseases. We talk about the motivational backbone for the
1:23.8	CZI that extends well into each of their personal histories. Indeed you'll
1:27.9	learn quite a lot about Dr. Priscilla Chan who has, I must say, an
1:31.8	absolutely incredible family story leading up to her role
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