A groundbreaking partnership between OpenAI and Thrive Global aims to harness the power of artificial intelligence to tackle America's growing chronic disease epidemic. The initiative, called Thrive AI Health, will develop a personalized AI health coach to help individuals make sustainable lifestyle changes.
According to Time Magazine, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Arianna Huffington, founder of Thrive Global, outlined their vision in a joint article. They argue that behavior change is crucial for both preventing and treating chronic conditions, which affect 129 million Americans and account for 90% of the nation's $4.1 trillion annual healthcare spending. "Behavior change is hard. But through hyper-personalization, it's also something that AI is uniquely positioned to solve," Altman and Huffington wrote in Time.
The AI health coach will be available as a mobile app and within Thrive Global's enterprise products. It will be trained on peer-reviewed science, Thrive's behavior change methodology, and users' health data to provide tailored recommendations across five key areas: sleep, nutrition, physical activity, stress management, and social connection.
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"Combine that with a superhuman long-term memory, and you have a fully integrated personal AI coach that offers real-time nudges and recommendations unique to you that allows you to take action on your daily behaviors to improve your health," like "go on a 10-minute walk with your child after you pick them up from school at 3:15 p.m. AI could go well beyond efficiency and optimization to something much more fundamental: improving both our health spans and our lifespans," they wrote.
The initiative aims to democratize access to personalized health coaching, potentially addressing health inequities by making evidence-based lifestyle interventions more accessible. For instance, the AI could suggest quick, affordable, and healthy meal options to replace fast food dinners.
