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#120: "Just because AI can do something, doesn’t mean it should" - Lara Lewington, Writer and Broadcaster
This week on The Tech Leaders Podcast, Gareth sits down with Author, BBC / ITV Presenter, and AI Agony Aunt Lara Lewington. They discuss how AI will revolutionise personalised medicine, its impact on wearable health trackers, and what “Health-span” really means.
Join us to hear Lara talk about fist bumping card machines, wireless urine monitoring, and being invited to the Moon by a Japanese billionaire…
Timestamps:
- Intro and Good Leadership (2:26)
- Breaking into TV – Celebrity interviews and Gadget reviews (5:00)
- Presenting Click, and being invited to the Moon (10:28)
- Intro to Health-span: Brian Johnson and 103-year-old Mildred (15:22)
- AI and Personalised Medicine (21:12)
- Wearables, Trackables and AI (27:09)
- The AI Agony Aunt (40:48)
- Editing “Hacking Humanity” (44:17)
- Health-span in depth (46:58)
- Hopes and fears for Gen AI, and advice to 19-year-old Lara (54:58)
You can find details of Lara's book here: BOOK | Lara Lewington