# Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is 'a great opportunity to go deceive people'

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> **Author**: Amanda Silberling (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Friday, October 30, 2026
> **Category**: INDUSTRY
> **Tags**: AI, TechCrunch AI, industry

## Executive Summary
The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit are raising capital at trillion-dollar valuations



## Full Coverage
" You Can See Everything ," the documentary capturing disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' final weeks before prison, is sparking national conversation as it becomes one of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. The film, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, intentionally refuses to characterize Holmes as a master manipulator or victim, instead highlighting her uncanny, almost hypnotic knack for making people pity her, even when they're well aware of her crimes

Tyler Shultz didn't need to see "You Can See Everything" to make up his mind about Holmes. Shultz, whose first job out of college was at Theranos, was a key whistleblower who exposed the company's dangerously inaccurate blood testing devices, which made their way into Walgreens stores and delivered faulty results to real patients. (Theranos reached a peak valuation of around $10 billion despite its technology never actually working — the company only used its own machines for a fraction of tests , instead outsourcing others to third-party equipment.)

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