Incumbents and Insurgents, sponsored by TowerBrook Capital Partners, is a candid series about the collision - and collaboration - between healthcare and technology. Hosted by Eric Larsen, President of the TowerBrook Healthcare Institute, the show explores how incumbent healthcare organizations are adopting AI, how tech insurgents are challenging entrenched models, and what it will take to improve outcomes while bending the cost curve.
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Tuesday Jan 06, 2026
Tuesday Jan 06, 2026
In this episode of Incumbents and Insurgents, Eric Larsen speaks with Dario Amodei, Co-Founder and CEO of Anthropic, about what happens when rapidly improving AI systems meet a healthcare sector built for stability and caution. They discuss the pace of model progress, why healthcare’s labor intensity and administrative burden make it especially exposed, and where AI is already acting as a clinical second opinion. The conversation spans physician workflows, biomedical discovery, and the gap between invention and diffusion, before turning to what increasingly capable machines mean for human judgment, creativity, and the role of the humanities in an age of abundant intelligence.