Artificial intelligence 'could prevent disease'

Artificial intelligence has the potential to "prevent disease", an expert has said. Dr Dominic King, UK lead at Google Health, said such technology could allow health problems to be predicted rather than detected. Speaking at the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences' Healthy Ageing conference, he added that AI was no substitute for exercising and not smoking. Dr King continued: "Artificial intelligence has, I think, the potential to prevent disease. "I do think there's a real role for these approaches to allow us to predict, rather than detect health problems.