There’s a lot of speculation about how artificial intelligence can revolutionize health care. Thought leaders in health and wellness are eager to see how AI could minimize health care burnout and staffing shortages . Others are exploring the prospect of AI supporting a growing aging population outside the four walls of a doctor’s office, reducing the prevalence of chronic diseases , and improving quality of life.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Thrive Global’s Arianna Huffington are teaming up to find AI solutions for the 130 million Americans diagnosed with at least one chronic condition. On Monday, the OpenAI Startup Fund and Thrive Global announced their funding and launch of Thrive AI Health, which will develop an AI health coach to give personalized health recommendations using people’s biometrics and lifestyle habits as references. The AI coach will be driven by scientific data and trained on Thrive’s behavior change methodology , which centers on microhabit changes.
“We talk about AI normally in terms of productivity, taking the drudgery out of work. These are, of course, very important applications of AI,” Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global, a behavior change platform, tells Fortune . “But ultimately, what matters is how AI helps us fundamentally improve our health spans and life spans .
If you think of it in the same way that the New Deal fueled our physical infrastructure to transform the country and democratize benefits, AI can serve as pa.
