The Cognitive Revolution · Thursday, October 1, 2026
Daniel McKinnon of Gamo Labs discusses how AI is successfully identifying rare genetic diagnoses in children that were missed by human specialists. His own experience, losing a child to a rare disease that was later found via AI, motivated him to develop these tools.
“And so we've had basically five years of heartbreak before bringing Warren into this world. And so just as a patient, I've started to learn, or a family of a patient, I start to learn a lot about the failings of this system.”
“It was that moment where I said, I'm heartbroken, but I'm mad, and I'm going to do something, and I have tools to do something.”
“And I was just shocked that it also outperformed on these other cases. And, you know, most clearly, is it diagnosed Owen when, you know, one of the best or, you know, some might even say the best prenatal sequencing lab did not.”