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Ali Khokhar

Ali Khokhar is a co-founder of Amigo AI[1], a platform based in New York City focused on building and deploying clinical AI agents[1]. Through this role, Khokhar has been involved in the development of technology designed to support clinical applications within the artificial intelligence sector[1].

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Ali Khokhar argues that AI should not replace experts but should scale them, building Amigo AI on the idea of creating a trained digital representation, or "amigo," of a specific human expert such as a coach or therapist rather than a generic AI persona [1]. He emphasizes that the expert retains full control over what the digital version says and how it reasons, since the value lies in their accumulated, often decades-long expertise, and the goal is to extend their availability to thousands of clients without diluting quality [1]. A recurring theme in his thinking is that expert services are not question-answering exercises; coaches and therapists do not simply respond to queries but conduct structured sessions that draw on context, history, and memory [1]. This leads to his core technical philosophy, summarized as "context is all you need," a deliberate contrast to the transformer-era slogan "attention is all you need," reflecting his belief that replicating expertise requires a "context engine" that retrieves the right knowledge and memories at the right moment, rather than static retrieval against documents [1].

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