An AI founder’s deeply personal journey with healthcare AI

Welcome to Episode 4 of Series 5 with Our Lives with Bots on AI development and design. On today’s episode, we welcome Bindu Chanagala, who founded an AI startup called Nurtur that guides new mothers through a clinically-backed process designed to educate them about postpartum depression for the sake of preventative care and mitigation of its side effects. Postpartum depression affects between 10-20% of women, and 50% of mothers have undiagnosed postpartum depression.Bindu’s platform was, in many ways, a passion project that oftentimes hit too close to home. Tune in for a deep dive episode on how Bindu’s startup journey was informed by her experience as an engineer, founder, mother with postpartum depression, and user of ChatGPT for personal and medical support during her father’s last months.Bindu is an MIT Sloan School of Management graduate and Vice President of Performance Insights/Data Analytics at CommonSpirit Health, One of the largest health systems in the US. We hope you enjoy this deep dive episode.-This is Our Lives With Bots, the show where we ask important, timely questions about what it means to live with our bot counterparts. From time to time, we also dive deep into what an AI future might look like for us. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we spiral, but we always go deep.Rose and Angy are psychologists with degrees in psychology, artificial intelligence, and ethics. They have conducted research in human-AI interaction and created this podcast to make information about AI accessible to you. You can learn more about us at ⁠ourliveswithbots.com⁠.