Testimonials
"The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fault lines in society, including the inequalities that divide us. The message is clear – we must do what we can to keep everyone healthy and well through a much bigger focus on prevention to cope with this pandemic and manage future ones too. Tina's book provides the knowledge and ammunition to persuade people to treat health as their greatest asset—to protect themselves while doing their part in rebuilding global well-being and economic resilience."
—Professor Baron Peter Piot KCMG, World Expert in Virology & Global Health; Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Handa Professor of Global Health
"At a time of maximum anxiety about public health, we need a guide about how we can take control of our own lives and live in good health for longer. Tina Woods' book not only does that but also explains how the development of AI and other technologies can contribute to better aging. Quite literally, people's lives and happiness will depend on individuals and societies following some of the conclusions drawn in this book. It is a hugely important contribution to public debate. An "aging society" should be a matter for celebration, not apprehension. This book explains how we can make that shift."
—Right Honorable Damian Green MP, Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity, Former Deputy Prime Minister, UK Government
"Live Longer with AI describes how we went from the hope to the promise that aging can be targeted and healthspan can be increased. This book specifically offers horizons to realizing this. Such a future depends on three things. Firstly, we need sophisticated data (omics) from large populations, and basic resources and data to be available to scientists. Secondly, we need the ability to look at this data from different angles utilizing AI. Thirdly, and most importantly, we need a team of experts who know how to lead with the correct questions, without which we will not make significant discoveries. In this book, Tina talks with such experts about how we can move rapidly towards better healthspan."
—Nir Barzilai, Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Director, Institute for Aging Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"Tina Woods has woven together a masterful combination of interviews and insights in this book. Now that we have finally reached the point in the crusade against aging where the wider world is actually taking it seriously as a medical problem, the foremost requirement is for people to come forward who have the talent to communicate the specifics of how we can hasten the remaining steps towards a post-aging world. Woods is undoubtedly one of those people, and many lives will be saved through the efforts of those who are inspired by this book."
—Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer, SENS Research Foundation
"Tina Woods is one of the most active advocates and drivers of the longevity biotechnology industry and related policy in the UK. As a credible super-connector, she managed to forge new initiatives and consortiums that will have a lasting impact. In this new book, she provides an overview of the current state of the emerging longevity biotechnology industry and a sense of the direction that advances in aging research and AI are going to take us in the next few years and the next few decades. Both aging research and AI are advancing and converging at an unprecedented pace. A new generation of experts is required in both these fields. This book should be read by anyone wishing to seize the opportunity to enter into this exciting and impactful area and make this world a much better place."
—Alex Zhavoronkov, Founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine and Deep Longevity
"Understanding aging, and what we might do about it, is one of the most intriguing and important scientific challenges of our time. Tina Woods has mobilized her great energy and insight to give us a book that simply fizzes with the excitement of this quest."
—Professor Thomas Kirkwood CBE, FMedSci, FRCP Edin; Emeritus Professor in Ageing, Newcastle University, and Affiliate Professor, University of Copenhagen Center for Healthy Aging
"This book sets out to share and explore some of the practical applications and implications of the use of AI in helping humanity to live longer with improved health. The topic is vast, with so much going on across the scene internationally, but Tina carefully links the various areas and initiatives up through the chapters and helps the reader to see the true opportunity and potential inherent in the bold pursuit of exploring the use of advanced, borderless, open data sets, deep learning, and a greater understanding of the coding of life. A must-read for anyone seriously considering developing a longer-term view on population health, the ethical usage of health data, and the potential to make the next transformational leap in human aging and reduction in mortality."
—Alan Davies, Innovative Programmes & Partnerships Director, Health Education England
"From the time that our ancestors became aware of their own mortality, humans have strived to live longer and better—today we continue this quest by employing advanced technologies. Tina provides us with a heart-felt reflection on the societal and economic consequences of aging populations and guides us through the potential of harnessing AI to unlock the secrets of personalized longevity and resilience. Live Longer with AI will enlighten consumers, health care professionals and policy makers on the importance of technological advances, not only to better tackle the current global health crisis but also to find answers to the age-old question of how we can maintain mental, physical and financial well-being as we grow older."
—Dr Richard Siow, Director, Ageing Research at Kings College London (ARK)
"Recent generations have achieved the goal of living longer, but with more chronic health conditions than ever before. In order to achieve true healthy aging, we have to translate scientific findings into real-life interventions. Live Longer with AI describes how we can achieve true increases in healthy life expectancy for both the individual and populations, by harnessing modern technologies. This book describes the potential of a scientific and technological approach to healthy aging, and lays out what needs to be done in order to achieve it.
"This book is a must-read for anybody interested in health, wellness, and the future of true healthcare."
—Michael Sagner, MD, Director Sarena Clinic, Director of the Board, European Society of Preventive Medicine, Editor-in-Chief, Progress in Preventive Medicine
"Dialoguing with Tina is one of the most satisfying exercises for the mind that can be done. Tina has an extraordinary ability to make you sail far ahead of the challenges of our society while pushing you to explore the hidden folds of opportunity when aging and longevity are associated with emerging technologies. Tina is like a modern-day Virgil: she leads the way, but she does it by leaving you in charge. This book is tangible proof of this."
—Professor Nic Palmarini, Director, National Innovation Centre for Ageing
"As our society ages, and as more diseases that carry age as a risk factor are uncovered, we are becoming acutely aware of the consequences of prior misunderstandings, our lack of knowledge in specific areas, and our ignorance of the impact of societal influences on living healthily and, importantly, aging healthily. It is critical that we now start to open our eyes and address this, and Tina's book provides one of the tools to enable us to do just that. In her book, Tina uncovers and expands the role of AI and data in improving our health and well-being, something critically important considering the current impact of the pandemic. We all need to take responsibility if we want, hope, to live a long and healthy life – this book underpins how we can do that."
—Dr. Carol Routledge, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Officer, Small Pharma; Former Research Director, Alzheimer's Research UK and Managing Director, Early Detection of Neurodegenerative Diseases (EDoN) Global Initiative
"COVID-19 has underlined the importance of deploying every tool at our disposal to help address major health challenges for public benefit. The beneficial use of AI is arguably one such tool, as Woods demonstrates. The use of AI with and for people and society has transformative potential. This is a valuable contribution to the emerging literature."
—Reema Patel, Head of Public Engagement, Ada Lovelace Institute
"Like never before, the world is awake to health and wellness being key to both combatting infection and living life without the crippling diseases that have blighted the second half of life for too many. Tina has blended a remarkable mix of expert interviews, science, and personal reflections and created the most comprehensive yet readable book I've seen on maximizing our healthy lifespan. Healthcare AI is advancing fast, but this book is also suffused with Tina's own brand of very human intelligence."
—Professor Richard Barker, Author of 2030 – The Future of Medicine
"We are living in the third healthcare revolution. The first was the public health revolution, the second the high-tech revolution based in hospitals and health centers, and the third is driven by citizens – the people we used to call patients – knowledge, the Internet, and all that has developed from this technology. This is a handbook for the revolution!"
—Sir Muir Gray, Director, Optimal Ageing
"You can live longer and be happier if you make some changes – that is the theme of this book, which reviews recent learning about our aging societies and looks at how even simple technologies can make some big changes. Well-written and compelling."
—Ben Page, CEO, Ipsos Mori
"Every reader, regardless of age, will gain access to an extraordinary depth of knowledge on how to have longer, healthier, and more prosperous lives. Tina makes every reader a geoscientist, an economist, and a world futurist, without commercializing or dumbing her material down. There is no need to be an expert or even acquainted with Artificial Intelligence to enjoy this book. Tina presents us with "page-turner" interviews and personal stories from famous scientists, thinkers, and entrepreneurs.
Her elegance and concern are evident, as she explores the challenges of COVID-19 to assert that a life worth living is worth preserving through prevention, treatment, and mutual caring for all."
—Adriane Berg, Host Generation Bold Podcast, Director of The Kitalys Institute for the Delay and Prevention of Age-Related Diseases
"Live Longer with AI is a masterpiece about the new advances in life extension and longevity thanks to emerging exponential technologies, from AI all the way to nanotechnology. Tina covers such varied fields with great expertise, including fascinating interviews, new health possibilities, and her own work. In the post-COVID-19 era, it is important to have a fresh look at all the coming opportunities; Tina's book is a must-read for those who want to discover the future of health."
—José Luis Cordeiro, Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science; Director, The Millennium Project; Vice Chair, Humanity Plus; Co-Author of The Death of Death
"This book is a life-affirming achievement. Tina's thought-provoking conversations with a wide range of stakeholders (and when it comes to health each and every one of us is stakeholder) made me both concerned and exhilarated. Concerned at the sheer scale and complexity of the challenge ahead and at the likely capacity of some of the incumbent power structures to rise to the challenge, and exhilarated at just how much original and radical thinking is both needed and already being done. We are all now data citizens. Citizenship implies obligations as well as rights—nowhere is this clearer than in the field of health and this book will encourage you to think deeply about what it might be like to inhabit our bodies and our own health data space with compassion for both self and other in the 21st century."
—Robbie Stamp, CEO, Bioss International, AI Governance Expert
"We're all living longer but those extra years of life are increasingly being spent in poorer health with an ever-widening and unacceptable health gap between wealthy and deprived areas. AI could be part of the solution to meeting this societal challenge and this is something that Tina expertly explores in Living Longer with AI. Unlike other books on this topic, you don't need to be a technophile to understand and enjoy it, and it's so important that this book reaches a wide audience.
For while the potential of AI is huge, it comes with limitations and significant ethical considerations. These are all sensitively and thoroughly considered by Tina as someone who cares about people first and foremost, not about selling AI."
—Michelle Hawkins-Collins, Ageing-well activist, researcher and Gerontologist
"More than ever, people are beginning to recognize now that the process of aging, and in particular our ability to maintain health throughout it, is inextricably bound to our collective health as a society. Live Longer with AI details how AI and related technologies are paving the way for significant increases in healthy lifespan, and the transformative effects this can have on our economy, personal lives, and ability to resist all diseases – infectious or otherwise. In Tina's skilled hands this critically important topic receives the care and attention it most certainly deserves."
—Keith Comito, President of Lifespan.io – Life Extension Advocacy Foundation
"This new book by Tina Woods is an amazing achievement and one of the most important books of 2020 as it provides a comprehensive overview of longevity, an industry that is at its inflection point today and will become the "new industrial revolution" of the 21st century. It covers a broad range of tangent verticals from healthcare AI to precision medicine and reads like a detective story"
—Anton Derlyatka, Co-Founder and CEO, Sweatcoin
"Most of us want to live longer. Can AI help us? Tina's visionary book answers this question by synthesizing a vast amount of cutting-edge scientific information and providing insights through interviews with today's leading AI thinkers and practitioners. Instructive and analytical, and densely packed with info while being engaging and accessible, reading this book will help you get up to speed in record time. Thank you, Tina, for fast-tracking our understanding by pursuing your passion."
—Ann Longley, Founder, Something New Together
"This book is a wonderful riposte to the catastrophists who see doom around the corner. Tina has compiled inputs from some of the leading thinkers in the world to create an inspiring overview of the prospect for biology, AI, and government policy to greatly enhance population healthspan.
By grounding her survey with her personal experience she helps to soften the breath-taking ideas being proposed by some of her interviewees and make them more comprehensible. This is a superb book for those interested to learn about the revolution that the researchers in the longevity and healthspan field promise to deliver to all of us."
—Brian Lynch, Serial Healthcare Entrepreneur
"This is the antithesis of a lazy beach read. Sit up straight, deploy your concentration and curiosity genes, and get ready to grow your brain with the knowledge provided by Tina and dozens of top-tier longevity scientists, academics, and entrepreneurs. You'll learn that cancer cells are biologically immortal, as are germ and stem cells. You'll learn about the concepts of singularity, cellular reprogramming, and aging biomarkers. And Tina will help you understand how computational biology will help unravel the basis of life itself. This is a fabulous book that will clear up any confusion you have about the role of AI in building a better world. It's a tool that can help move us beyond our troubled state of human and planetary distress to a future of abundance, better health, and well-being."
—Susan Flory – Host-producer, The Big Middle Podcast
"The strangeness of 2020 has made many of us reflect rather obsessively on what is truly important in life and what is not. It has made the importance of science, the importance of collective endeavor, the importance of society, and the importance of quality of life stand out in sharp relief. Tina's book is timely. It addresses all of these key priorities – and weaves a fascinating narrative, informed by the finest thinkers in the field. If you read only one book in the coming months, make it this one."
—Karen Lipworth, Healthcare Communications Consultant, Healthcare Writer and Contributor
"Life, time, health, and especially technology move at such breath-taking speed that it's hard to keep up. This book tackles a more important dimension, though – how to turn it all to the advantage of humanity through AI."
—Nicole Yershon, Founder & CEO, NY Collective
"I am normally something of a sceptic about AI, but unusually I can see much promise here. Apart from anything else, an informed, personalized approach to well-being and health seems essential if we are to encourage people to focus on the perfectly manageable number of new behaviors which will be of greatest benefit to them personally, rather than bombarding people with every single statistical finding. Many of these may work at the aggregate level, while being mostly ineffectual at the level of the individual. The price you pay for issuing too many instructions is often that people do nothing at all."
—Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman, Ogilvy Group
"Live Longer with AI showcases the latest exciting developments in artificial intelligence and how they will help us live longer, healthier, and better than ever before. From exploring AI's potential in managing the global pandemic to personalizing healthcare for every single person on the planet, the book creates a mind shift that allows us to see aging and our partnership with technology in a fresh, new light!"
—Sergey Young, Founder of Longevity Vision Fund