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Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad has spent two decades building AI at scale, systems reaching tens of millions, and investigating what those AI systems encode. He studies what AI does to death, grief, and society at large. He is Director of AI at a healthcare AI startup, Resident Fellow at Harborview Medical Center, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Washington Bothell.

Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad has spent two decades building AI systems at clinical scale and investigating what those systems encode. He is Director of AI at a healthcare AI startup and previously led AI at Kaiser Permanente, with systems affecting the lives of millions of patients. He is a Resident Fellow at Harborview Medical Center (UW Medicine) and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington Bothell.

His research operates at three frontiers. At the frontier of the body, he builds and deploys clinical AI at scale, asking what responsible AI looks like when it reaches millions of people. At the frontier of the self, he studies what AI does to death, grief, and memory, including the GrandpaBot project, a simulation of his late father built so his grandchildren could know a grandfather they never met. At the frontier of the community, he develops AI governance frameworks from within multiple moral traditions, the same question his clinical work raises at scale: whose values do these systems encode, and for whom?