Human Intelligence: W.H.O Failed the U.S.
What does the World Health Organization [W.H.O.] do for the United States that somehow the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] can’t do for the federation?
Because the United States has been the biggest contributor to the W.H.O., what should the W.H.O. have done as a specific service to the US that would be necessary and uniquely helpful?
What is a public health emergency in the United States that would have been less capital-intensive for the W.H.O. to make an impact? How much has the US been a health priority of the W.H.O.?
The United States has had a problem with drug overdoses in recent years. What has the World Health Organization done, directly, to help the US resolve the problem?
There are addiction problems as well as mental disorders that the World Health Organization has done nothing about, in particular for the United States. In recent months, there have been several reports about AI Psychosis. The World Health Organization has provided nothing about it, which would not just help the US but also become a pathway for care with digital mental health, digital biomarkers, and advances in psychiatry.
The World Health Organization appears to excel at statistics, but how much does that move care forward if there is no theoretical advance? Why is it that the W.H.O. does not have any theorized model for mental health or disorder?
Why doesn’t the World Health Organization have any postulates on how the [whole] brain works, for answers to lead against addiction? Developing major theories at least should not be expensive [if money is the problem], but the World Health Organization has nothing to offer in that regard.
W.H.O. Anachronistic?
There is a new [January 22, 2026] report on Reuters, US set to quit World Health Organization, stating that, “The U.S. is due to officially exit the World Health Organization on Thursday, in the face of warnings it will hit both U.S. health and global health and also in violation of a U.S. law that requires Washington to pay the U.N. health agency $260 million in fees that it owes.”
“For the WHO, the departure of the U.S. has sparked a budgetary crisis that has seen it cut its management team in half and scale back work, cutting budgets across the agency. Washington has traditionally been by far the U.N. health agency’s biggest financial backer, contributing around 18% of its overall funding. The WHO will also shed around a quarter of its staff by the middle of this year.”
“The agency said it has been working with the U.S. and sharing information in the last year. It was unclear how the collaboration will work going forward.”
“Global health experts said this posed risks for the U.S., the WHO, and the world.”
Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence
For more than one year that the United States has declared to leave the W.H.O., what have they done to at least appeal to a major trend or inject themselves into relevance, on the biggest development in science, in recent decades?
Artificial intelligence has reached an intense maturity and sophistication that is more than what should be dismissed for its errors or weaknesses. It is excellent at several productive and social tasks.
It can handle what can be compared to a long-distance relationship. It can teach. It can diagnose. It can work on several expert-level tasks. What should the W.H.O. have done about AI? Look for how to use AI in health [like ChatGPT health] or pursue human intelligence [that no AI company is doing]?
At least until January 22, 2026, in all of science, there is no definition for human intelligence. Or a scientific definition. There are no types. There is also no proposed mechanism of human intelligence in the brain in neuroscience.
There is no human intelligence research lab on earth. There is no project on how to explore improving human intelligence for problem-solving. There is no preparation on how to induce human intelligence, even as investments in AI soar, and AI improves all the time.
The World Health Organization and the World Health Assembly do not even look at this as a solution the world needs. They have left a place of priority. They did nothing in action for the world and for the vulnerable in one year. All they seemed to care about was complaining about losing US membership, hence, money.
The World Health Organization and the World Health Assembly have failed themselves. They have failed the United States. They have failed the world. They assume that whatever they are doing elsewhere is only what matters. They forget that doing for their biggest donor and doing for the world, in a way that helps, may count, as challenges mount.
If the World Health Organization ceases to exist, it will not be worth remembering.
This article was written for WHN by David Stephen, who currently does research in conceptual brain science with a focus on the electrical and chemical signals for how they mechanize the human mind, with implications for mental health, disorders, neurotechnology, consciousness, learning, artificial intelligence, and nurture. He was a visiting scholar in medical entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL. He did computer vision research at Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona.
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