The Risk of Living Longer Series, Session 5 of 5: Using Big Data and AI to improve and advance longevity
Uli Stengele (Nationwide Financial) and Douglas Anderson (Club Vita) ask the ultimate question of human longevity for financial institutions: How long can we go?
If many people start achieving significantly longer lifespans, there could be far reaching effects both on society and on our financial institutions. How well is this risk of living longer really understood? People have a tendency to underestimate life expectancy, and actuaries have traditionally based future projections on historical trends. Has groupthink resulted in systematic blind spots in appreciating future longevity risk? Are we overlooking potential black swan events? And do we fully appreciate the differences between insured populations and the general population?
In recent years, some of the world’s top minds – and most bulging wallets – have turned their attention to various aspects of increasing both healthspan and lifespan. Snippets filter down to us through the scientific media, but the questions remain: what are the most likely avenues for progress and how close are we to significant breakthroughs in extending lives?
Register here to join Douglas Anderson and Uli Stengele for the final session of an international multi-disciplinary webinar series where they unpack the key components of the risk of living longer by interviewing a series of experts. |
You might like the research and practical advice from https://www.health.harvard.edu/promotions/harvard-health-publications/harvard-heart-letter-sep2023-test?utm_source=delivra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NL20240701-HarvardHeartLetter&utm_id=7246388&utm_term=&dlv-emuid=64ac5935-0edd-4b70-bbdb-d660ba828730&dlv-mlid=7246388
You may also be interested in this quote from Dr F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE, associate professor of medicine and public health and director of Yale’s Clinical and Translational Research Accelerator in an article on the use of a facial temperature map for the identification of the subject’s medical age and health state:
“When I was a kid, I was obsessed with Star Trek — I know, you’re shocked — and, of course, the famous tricorder, a scanner that could tell everything about someone’s state of health in 5 seconds from 3 feet away. That’s how I thought medicine really would be in the future. Once I got to medical school, I was disabused of that notion. But the age of data, the age of AI, may mean the tricorder age is not actually that far away.”