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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

The future we could live in

AI will have a huge role to play in the future of health. Personalized health and predictive prevention will accelerate via greater access to clinical, genomic, financial, behavioral, and environmental datasets in which AI can spot patterns and trends that humans can't. People will have better access to their own data, which will help them to engage more in their own health, and in all the decisions affecting their lives from birth to death.

The impact of AI is starting to be felt in most aspects of our lives, making us question who holds the power in society, and who will decide how to use technology to make our world better, or worse.

As the pandemic rages and shines a spotlight on the flaws of our current value system, the power of technology to help solve the world's greatest problems has emerged with startling clarity. AI has played a huge role in identifying more than 250 vaccine candidates for COVID-19 in less than six months. AI...