Background: We shall be discussing the role AI and technology are playing in our lives, especially when it comes to health. We’ll unravel how this might be able to help us age better, and delay the onset of disease, so enjoy longer “healthspans”. Technological advancements are changing the game when it comes to understanding brain health, as well as physical health, and it turns out there’s plenty we can do to help ourselves.
Speaker:
Lara Lewington is a technology journalist, writer and documentary maker. She presents the BBC’s weekly flagship technology show, Click (BBC One and BBC News), and amongst other things, fronted BBC One's Panorama ‘Beyond Human: Artificial Intelligence and Us’, ITV1 's ‘Tonight: Healthy Ageing’, and Radio 4’s ‘A Documentary: by Chat GPT’. She wrote and presented the BBC's, ‘Forever Young?’, a documentary on the science of extending our ‘healthspans’, and is also ITV Lorraine’s resident ‘AI Agony Aunt’. Alongside her passion for tech in the health and longevity fields, she has a special interest in AI Ethics, which she can often be found discussing across TV and radio.