Season 2Episode 10

AI in Healthcare & Longevity: Can AI Help Us Live Longer, or Just Measure Us Better?

· 00:11:04

Artificial intelligence is entering the most intimate frontier of all, our bodies.It predicts illness before symptoms appear, discovers new drugs in a fraction of the time, tracks the rhythms of our biology through wearables, and even models the science of ageing.But as AI begins to diagnose, predict, and measure us with extraordinary precision, one question becomes unavoidable:Is AI helping us live longer… or simply tracking our decline more accurately?In this episode of Decoded: AI for Everyone, we explore how AI is reshaping modern medicine through early diagnosis, rapid drug discovery, personalised health data, and emerging longevity science.We also examine the ethical tension between empowerment and overdiagnosis, privacy and prediction, wellness and inequality.In this episode:How AI detects cancers and cardiac risks years before human doctorsHow drug discovery is shifting from 10 years… to 10 weeksHow wearables and health apps turn our bodies into datasetsThe rise of digital twins and personalised longevity plansThe risks of overdiagnosis, health anxiety, data inequality, and “longevity privilege”What AI-powered healthcare means for you, your family, and your futureBecause the future of medicine isn’t just technological.It’s profoundly human.Stream's Saturday at 12 pm AESTResources:decoded-podcast.comstrategen-ai.compromptengineeringcookbook.comlinkedin.com/company/decoded-ai-for-everyoneReferenced Research & ToolsGoogle Health, Breast Cancer AI: health.google/clinical-research/breast-cancer-screeningMayo Clinic, ECG AI: mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/cardiovascular-diseases/newsDeepMind, Retinal Diagnosis: deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-for-50-eye-diseasesAlphaFold, Protein Modelling: deepmind.google/discover/alphafoldInsilico Medicine, AI Drug Discovery: insilico.comApple Watch, Heart Health: apple.com/healthcare/apple-watchNIH, Biological Age Research: nia.nih.govSeason 2 of Decoded: AI for Everyone is powered by Strategen AI: Where Research Meets Execution.

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