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Live Longer with AI

By : Tina Woods
Book Image

Live Longer with AI

By: Tina Woods

Overview of this book

Live Longer with AI examines how the latest cutting-edge developments are helping us to live longer, healthier and better too. It compels us to stop thinking that health is about treating disease and start regarding it as our greatest personal and societal asset to protect. The book discusses the impact that AI has on understanding the cellular basis of aging and how our genes are influenced by our environment – with the pandemic highlighting the interconnectedness of human and planetary health. Author Tina Woods, founder and CEO of Collider Health and Collider Science, and the co-founder of Longevity International, has curated a panel of deeply insightful interviews with some of today’s brightest and most innovative thought leaders at the crossroads of health, technology and society. Read what leading experts in health and technology are saying about the book: "This is a handbook for the revolution!" —Sir Muir Gray, Director, Optimal Ageing "You can live longer and be happier if you make some changes – that is the theme of this book. Well-written and compelling." —Ben Page, CEO, Ipsos Mori "Tina's book is a must-read for those who want to discover the future of health." —José Luis Cordeiro, Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Director, The Millennium Project; Vice Chair, Humanity Plus; Co- Author of The Death of Death About the consultant editor Melissa Ream is a leading health and care strategist in the UK, leveraging user-driven design and artificial intelligence to design systems and support people to live healthier, longer lives.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
Preface
7
Index

How AI will change the focus of medicine

"We're using AI and machine learning to look backwards and analyze significant amounts of retrospectively collected clinical data and prospectively collected clinical and digital data, to try and identify the relevant digitally collected endpoints that relate to clinical outcomes and disease progression. We're using AI because of the enormity of the data, to allow us to analyze the data critically, to identify patterns within the data, and enable us to build algorithmic models to detect neurodegenerative disease fingerprints in individuals at a much earlier stage than we do today."

– Carol Routledge, Alzheimer's Research UK

The potential of AI is undeniable in health and healthcare, and AI has been driving many of the innovations to help individuals and communities cope with the COVID-19 pandemic—for example, there has been a rapid rise in technologies to enable remote consultations...