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One thing that got me excited about the potential of AI in the health space was said by some Harvard professors. For years and years, we have not been able to make any inroads into dementia because we just do not know any of the causes and what we are trying to go after. The reason we were able to get a Covid vaccine so quickly was that we knew exactly what we were trying to attack. With dementia, we do not have those avenues of attack, but the professors said that if you take the data we have in the UK—yes, it would involve scraping—and look at the people who are suffering from dementia today, wind the clock back 10, 15 or 20 years and look at what they were seeing their GP about, you will start to see some of the early warning indicators. If you throw all that at AI, you might suddenly have whole new avenues of attack, because it identifies patterns that you did not realise existed.