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Getting Pharma AI Agents to the Right Answer by Fixing the Data and Semantic Layers - with Richard Knoche of Flatiron Health

aired Nov 09, 2026 · 30.0m
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Summary

Welcome, everyone, to the Emoj AI in Business podcast. Today's guest is Richard Kanaki, Head of Data Science and AI at Flatiron Health.

Why listen

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Key takeaways
  1. 01In this episode, Richard explains why AI agents in pharma are only as reliable as the data foundation and semantic layer beneath them
  2. 02He describes how his team built its semantic layer from years of human analysis, used that history to benchmark its agents, and found that having an agent resolve ambiguity in a qu
  3. 03There's the data foundation, the semantic layer, and the agentic layer
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