I am a doctor and an AI engineer. I am building an instrument to map and upgrade the mind.
I trained as a physician and as an AI engineer at the same time, at Stanford, where I co-directed Stanford HealthAI and taught the Deep Learning in Medicine course. Since then I have built around thirty AI systems across ten countries, in healthcare, pharma, private equity and government. Before any of that, I spent two years in Siberia learning how minds change. The longer version is here.
I am a founding partner and Head of AI at Nexian, where we build AI systems for regulated, high-stakes industries. I run a small advisory practice, Tanner AI. The work I care most about is MindTech: treating the mind as a system that can be mapped, defended and upgraded.
I am Canadian American, based in Dubai, and in London often.
Working on now
- MindTech. A narrow beta of the consented self-assessment opens this autumn. The belief map, read for where a person is most easily moved. mindwarelabs.ai
- Agent verification. Psychological red-teaming of AI agents, in production with a global advertising group and a UK government department through a partner platform.
- Nexian. A compliance platform for pharmaceutical manufacturing in the UAE, built with the drug regulator as design partner.
Latest writing
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The Human Mind Is Up for Grabs
September 2026, part oneA superior intelligence can now read and move a human mind. Two futures follow. One produces people who are easier to predict and steer. The other produces people who can upgrade their minds to unprecedented heights.
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September 2026, part two
Medical technology converted the body into a measurable system. The mind has never had an instrument like that. With AI, it is now buildable, and it might be the most powerful, dangerous technology that we have ever created.
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The Man Who Rebuilt His Own Mind
Video, 22 September 2026. All essays and videos
Work
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An instrument for mapping, defending and upgrading the mind. Narrow beta, autumn 2026. Read the briefing.
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Nexian
AI systems for regulated, high-stakes industries. Founding partner and Head of AI.
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AI advisory, custom systems and agents, evaluation, and training.
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A personal AI operating system, built on your own accounts.