Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is 'a great opportunity to go deceive people'

Tyler Shultz, a key Theranos whistleblower who helped expose the company's dangerously faulty blood testing devices, warns that the AI boom may enable a repeat of the fraud he witnessed. Speaking to The San Francisco Standard amid renewed attention from the documentary "You Can See Everything," Shultz noted that Theranos raised money from individual investors without sharing scientific evidence, and that many top venture capitalists avoided it. He argues investors must recognize the power they hand over when writing large checks, and that AI is especially hard to vet because it is difficult to distinguish genuine innovation from something like "a ChatGPT wrapper." Shultz also said Holmes is preparing a "second act" through her new diagnostics company Haemanthus and expressed unease about what comes next.

(Source：TechCrunch)