Canadian start-up used AI to raise early alarm about coronavirus The Canadian start-up BlueDot used artificial intelligence to raise an early alarm about the coronavirus that originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan. "If we really think we can get in front of these infectious diseases, we're going to have to move faster than they do and they move very, very fast," Dr. Kamran Khan, the founder and CEO of BlueDot, tells AFP. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES