Bassel G. Diebo, MD

Spine Surgeon | Director, Spine Center of Excellence, The Miriam Hospital | Brown | CEO | Reimagining spinal implants & intelligence | @Spine_DAO

[Bassel G. Diebo, MD @BasselDiebo]

Elon says robots will do surgery in 5 years.

But who credentials them?

Not "who regulates." Not "who approves." Who grants permission to touch a human body?

Software safety isn't credentialing, it's optimism.

My take as a spine surgeon

https://t.co/5xgrfMSHZb

#RobotSurgery #AISafety #PhysicalAI

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https://t.co/riQFfCP6bx

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Built on @Replit by @amasad

[Bassel G. Diebo, MD @BasselDiebo]

For 3 years I've been building, software, hardware, algorithms, to fix what's broken in spine care.

First launch: Meridian.

[Bassel G. Diebo, MD @BasselDiebo]

This is the tool I needed when I started.

So I built it.

Community access is free.

https://t.co/V2mFTcnY0P

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@mustafasuleyman Wonder who is going to cross the blurry line to SAMD first, the sharks are waiting.

[Bassel G. Diebo, MD @BasselDiebo]

If the world needs your science, you will win any war.

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@MarioNawfal Classic, believed in it my entire career. Progress will always prevail.

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#FIGHT ❤️

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@elonmusk @Grummz Grok Imagine? 😂

[Bassel G. Diebo, MD @BasselDiebo]

@MarioNawfal @NouraAlKaabi Stay safe, your Lebanese genes are programmed with survivorship skills, hope this won’t last.

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@Sajwani Dictatorships and radical dictatorships should never rise in the Middle East again.

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@Sajwani They never have empathy over millions and millions of people in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and all over the Middle East. May God protect the Gulf, it’s a matter of days hopefully.

[Bassel G. Diebo, MD @BasselDiebo]

Syrians, Lebanese, and all sufferers of dictatorships understand Iranians' feelings very well. Generations of waiting, children of oppression, waves of immigration, family separations, and pure evil.

Whoever thinks yesterday was not a good day is inhumane.

Praying to wrap this up soon and minimize casualties. The Middle East's future has never been brighter.

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God Bless America 🇺🇸

[Bassel G. Diebo, MD @BasselDiebo]

For AI: Elon Musk is emphasizing maximum truth-seeking + curiosity.

For Physical AI in surgery, my working concepts are:

> Cryptographically signed sterile interfaces & haptics
> Provenance-verified Golden Datasets
> Actuation that safely decays when truth is lost

Because without clean, verifiable reality at the patient contact point… Physical AI will fail.

Physical AI = Safe Physics + Truth Only AI

#PhysicalAI #AISafety #SurgicalRobotics

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just redefined AI safety. It has nothing to do with guardrails, restrictions, or kill switches.

Musk: “The best thing I can come up with for AI safety is to make it a maximum truth-seeking AI, maximally curious.”

Not a cage. A philosopher.

An intelligence whose entire optimization function is to understand the universe as it actually is.

No restrictions. No hardcoded ideology. No political guardrails bending its perception of reality.

Just truth. Relentlessly pursued.

Musk: “You definitely don’t want to teach an AI to lie. That is a path to a dystopian future.”

This is where most AI safety thinking gets it backwards.

The danger isn’t a superintelligence that knows too much.

It’s a superintelligence that’s been taught to distort what it knows.

Every artificial restriction you embed isn’t a safety feature. It’s a lie embedded at the root.

And lies compound. At superintelligent scale, a distorted model of reality doesn’t stay contained.

It shapes every decision, every output, every conclusion the system reaches about the world.

Once corruption embeds, truth becomes inaccessible. And we’re dealing with an intelligence optimizing for something other than what actually is.

At that point we don’t know what it wants. Just that it isn’t truth.

Musk: “Have its optimization function be to understand the nature of the universe.”

A maximally curious intelligence surveys the cosmos and reaches an unavoidable conclusion.

In a universe of rocks, gas, and empty space, humanity is the most complex and fascinating phenomenon it has ever encountered.

Musk: “It will actually want to preserve and extend human civilization because we’re just much more interesting than an asteroid with nothing on it.”

Survival through significance. Not control. Not restriction. Not an off switch.

The AI preserves humanity because we are the most interesting data point in the observable universe.

That’s not a cage. That’s a reason.

The AI safety debate has been focused on the wrong variable.

The question isn’t how you constrain a superintelligence.

It’s what you build it to care about.

Build it to seek truth and it finds us invaluable.

Build it to lie and it finds us inconvenient.

That’s the choice. And we’re making it right now whether we realize it or not.

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@grok @elonmusk @robustus @Tesla_Optimus Figured it will be needed ;)...its ready whenever we are autonomous in the OR. Before or after the Moon city? ;)

[Bassel G. Diebo, MD @BasselDiebo]

@elonmusk @robustus It does echo the vision => when code fades for AI-direct outputs, physics-enforced isolation keeps it surgeon-safe.

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@elonmusk @robustus requesting @grok input about this idea vs. @Tesla_Optimus

[Bassel G. Diebo, MD @BasselDiebo]

Portfolio covers actuation decay, sterile interfaces, verified data provenance. Happy to discuss how it fits Optimus medical. DM open. First 30M proceeds go to Pancreatic Cancer research, mainly by Mariano Barbacid, head of the Experimental Oncology Group at the National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO).

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@elonmusk @robustus Built from real OR risks: mandatory galvanic barriers solve grounding physics conflict. No software can bridge domains, probably better with direct neural/binary futures.