Can AI Prevent 30% of Deaths?
The company that taught the internet to dream in pixels now wants to look inside your body. The pitch is seductive. The science is still a promise. There is a particular kind of vertigo that comes from watching a company step far outside the thing that made it famous. Netflix tried this with games. Amazon tried it with healthcare and largely retreated. Google tried it more times than anyone can count. But few pivots have been as conceptually strange, or as quietly audacious, as the one Midjourney announced this June. Midjourney is the AI image generator that, for the last few years, has been synonymous with synthetic dragons, surreal portraits, and the occasional viral deepfake controversy. It has no outside investors, no IPO ambitions that anyone knows of, and, according to widely reported figures, hundreds of millions of dollars in annual recurring revenue from people paying to generate pictures of things that don't exist. Now it wants to show you what's inside your own b...
