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Apr 30, 2025

Blair LeCorte on How AI Is Extending Human Lifespan

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Blair LeCorte on How AI Is Extending Human Lifespan
Blair LaCourte shares his unconventional entry into the tech industry, highlighting his role at Sun Microsystems and his involvement in AI advancements. He emphasizes the cyclical nature of tech revolutions, from hardware to AI, and the importance of integrating past technologies for future innovations. LaCourte discusses AI's role in transforming healthcare, particularly in predicting and preventing diseases, and the significance of personalized medicine. He highlights the Buck Institute's work on aging and the potential of AI in extending health spans. Practical advice includes focusing on human connections, calorie restriction, intermittent fasting, and personalized health data collection to enhance longevity and wellness.

Key Points:

  • AI advancements build on past tech revolutions, integrating hardware, software, and data.
  • AI's potential in healthcare lies in predicting and preventing diseases, not just curing them.
  • Personalized medicine and data collection are crucial for extending health spans.
  • Human connections and lifestyle changes like calorie restriction and intermittent fasting improve longevity.
  • The Buck Institute focuses on aging research, using AI to transform healthcare approaches.

Details:

1. ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ AI ์ฑ„ํŒ… ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ ์†Œ๊ฐœ ๋ฐ ๊ฒŒ์ŠคํŠธ ์†Œ๊ฐœ

  • ๋ธ”๋ ˆ์–ด ๋ผ์ฟ ๋ฅดํŠธ๋Š” ExoJet์˜ CEO๋กœ์„œ VistaJet๊ณผ์˜ ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๋Œ€์˜ ์‚ฌ์„ค ํ•ญ๊ณต์‚ฌ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๊ทธ๋Š” $15์–ต ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ IPO๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด AI ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๊ณต๊ฐœ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ์ƒ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ํ˜„์žฌ ์šฐ์ฃผ๋น„ํ–‰์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ›ˆ๋ จ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์žฅ์ˆ˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ Buck Institute์˜ ๋ถ€ํšŒ์žฅ์„ ๋งก๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๊ทธ๋Š” 1,000๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ํˆฌ์žํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž ์ „๋žต์€ AI์™€ ์ฒจ๋‹จ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ถ„์•ผ์— ์ค‘์ ์„ ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2. ๐Ÿš€ ๋ธ”๋ ˆ์–ด ๋ผ์ฟ ๋ฅดํŠธ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๊ณผ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ

3. ๐Ÿ›ซ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํ˜์‹ ๊ณผ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด ์ „ํ™˜์˜ ๊ณ„๊ธฐ

  • Blair๋Š” ์˜ค์ผ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€์Šค ์‚ฐ์—…์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, Sun Microsystems์—์„œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ถ„์•ผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Sun Microsystems๋Š” Java์™€ ์›Œํฌ์Šคํ…Œ์ด์…˜์„ ๋ฐœ๋ช…ํ•œ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋กœ, Blair๋Š” ์ฒ˜์Œ์— ์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ž˜๋ชป ์ดํ•ดํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ์ปดํ“จํŒ…๊ณผ ๋ถ„์‚ฐ ์ปดํ“จํŒ…์„ ์„ ๋„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํšŒ์‚ฌ์ž„์„ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์ง€์‹์ด ์ „๋ฌดํ–ˆ๋˜ Blair๋Š” ๋น„๋””์˜ค ํ…Œ์ดํ”„๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ•™์Šตํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์–ธ์–ด๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ์†๋„์™€ ํ˜์‹ ์— ๋งค๋ ฅ์„ ๋А๋ผ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ Blair๋Š” Sun Microsystems์—์„œ 25,000๋ช…์˜ ํ•„๋“œ ์šด์˜ ์ „๋žต ์ฑ…์ž„์ž๋กœ ์ผํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ์˜ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Blair๋Š” ์ด ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๋งŽ์€ ๋„์ „๊ณผ ํ•™์Šต์„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํ˜์‹ ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์ธ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด ์ „ํ™˜์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๊นŠ์ด ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

4. ๐Ÿง  AI ๋ฐœ์ „๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํ˜์‹ ์˜ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ

  • ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํ˜์‹  ์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์•ฝ 7๋…„๋งˆ๋‹ค ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์”ฉ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณ€ํ™”์‹œํ‚จ๋‹ค.
  • ์ดˆ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ํ•˜๋“œ์›จ์–ด๊ฐ€ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์ดํ›„์—๋Š” ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด, ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค, ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํ‚น์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ํ˜„์žฌ AI๋Š” ์ด์ „์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฐœ์ „์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ด๋Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํ•˜๋“œ์›จ์–ด, ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด, ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค, ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „์ด ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
  • ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ˜์‹  ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์˜ˆ๋กœ๋Š” 1970๋…„๋Œ€์˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ์šฉ ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ ํ˜๋ช…, 1990๋…„๋Œ€์˜ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ์„ฑ์žฅ, 2000๋…„๋Œ€์˜ ๋ชจ๋ฐ”์ผ ํ˜๋ช…์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.

5. ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์ฐฝ์—…๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์กฐ์–ธ

  • AI๋Š” ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ™”ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋‘๋‡Œ๊ฐ€ ๋ณต์žก์„ฑ์„ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹๊ณผ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•˜๋‹ค.
  • ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์–ธ์–ด ๋ชจ๋ธ์€ AI์˜ ํ•œ ์˜ˆ๋กœ, ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์„ ์ค€๋‹ค.
  • ๊ฐ•ํ™” ํ•™์Šต์€ ์ž์œจ์ฃผํ–‰์ฐจ์™€ ๊ตฐ์šฉ ์ œํŠธ๊ธฐ์˜ ์„ผ์„œ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์— ํ™œ์šฉ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๋น ๋ฅธ ๋ฐ˜์‘์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๋‹ค.
  • AI์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „์€ ์ง€๋‚œ 30๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฐœ์ „๊ณผ ์—ฐ๊ณ„๋˜์–ด ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ธฐ๊ณ„ํ™” ๋ฐ ์ž๋™ํ™”์™€ ์—ฐ์†์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„๋‹ค.

6. ๐Ÿงฌ AI์™€ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•, ์žฅ์ˆ˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ†ต์ฐฐ

  • ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ฐฝ์—…์ž๋“ค์€ ๋ฌธ์ œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ์ž์œจ ์ฃผํ–‰ ์ž๋™์ฐจ์—์„œ LIDAR ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์€ AI์™€ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ณ ์†์—์„œ์˜ ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์ธก์ •์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์˜๋ฃŒ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ AI์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „์€ ์งˆ๋ณ‘ ์˜ˆ์ธก๊ณผ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์น˜๋ฃŒ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์˜ ์˜๋ฃŒ ์ฒด๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ณ€ํ™”์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
  • AI์™€ ๋น…๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ '๊ณผํ•™์  ์›ฐ๋‹ˆ์Šค'๋Š” ์งˆ๋ณ‘ ๋ฐœ์ƒ ์ „์— ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜๊ณ  ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์˜๋ฃŒ ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์ฆ์ง„์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
  • Buck Institute๋Š” ์—ผ์ฆ์ด ๋…ธํ™” ๊ด€๋ จ ์งˆ๋ณ‘์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์›์ธ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๊ฐœ์ธํ™”๋œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ˆ˜์ง‘๊ณผ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํŒจ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค์ž„์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์ˆ˜๋ช…์„ 10๋…„ ์ด์ƒ ์—ฐ์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•œ๋‹ค.
  • AI๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ถ„์„๊ณผ ์˜ˆ์ธก์€ ์งˆ๋ณ‘ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉ๊ณผ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์ƒํ™œ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „๋žต์  ๋„๊ตฌ๋กœ์„œ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ธ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

7. ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•๊ณผ ์žฅ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์‹ค์šฉ์ ์ธ ์กฐ์–ธ

  • ํ˜ˆ์•ก ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฒ ์ด์Šคํ™”ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋” ์ž˜ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.
  • AI๋Š” ์งˆ๋ณ‘ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉ๊ณผ ์˜ˆ์ธก์— ๋„์›€์„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ–ฅํ›„ 3~4๋…„ ๋‚ด์— ๋งŽ์€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋„๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
  • ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์ง€ํ‘œ๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ •์‹  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•๊ณผ ์ž์‚ด, ๋…ธ๋…„์ธต์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ง๋ฅ ๊ณผ ์ง์ ‘์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ด€๋ จ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์นผ๋กœ๋ฆฌ ์ œํ•œ์€ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์ˆ˜๋ช…์„ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋น„๋งŒ์€ ์—ผ์ฆ์„ ์œ ๋ฐœํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์— ํ•ด๋กญ๋‹ค.
  • ๊ฐ„ํ—์  ๋‹จ์‹์€ ์‹ ์ฒด์— ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์–ด ์นผ๋กœ๋ฆฌ ์†Œ๋น„๋ฅผ ์ค„์ด๋Š”๋ฐ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๋‹ค.
  • CGM(์—ฐ์† ํ˜ˆ๋‹น ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง)์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด ์‹ํ’ˆ ๋ฏผ๊ฐ์„ฑ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์—ผ์ฆ์„ ์œ ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹น ์ฒจ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ํ”ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์šด๋™์€ ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— 10๋ถ„์”ฉ์˜ ๊ณ ๊ฐ•๋„ ํ›ˆ๋ จ(HIT)๊ณผ ์ €๊ฐ•๋„ ํ›ˆ๋ จ(LIT)์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋งค ์‹œ๊ฐ„ 15๋ถ„์”ฉ ์›€์ง์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.
  • ์ˆ˜๋ฉด๊ณผ ์‹ ์ฒด ์ ‘์ด‰์€ ์œ ์ง€ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์š”์†Œ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ์ทจ์นจ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ์ˆ˜๋ฉด์˜ ์งˆ์„ 20% ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
  • ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์š”์ธ, ํŠนํžˆ ์„ธ์ œ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ™”ํ•™๋ฌผ์งˆ์ด ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฉด์—ญ ์ฒด๊ณ„์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๋‹ค์ค‘ ๋ณ€์ˆ˜ ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํ•˜๋ฃจ 30๋ถ„ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๊ฐœ์ธํ™”๋œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฐœ์ „์— ๋Œ€๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.

8. ๐Ÿ”— ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ ์œ ์šฉํ•œ ์ž์› ์•ˆ๋‚ด

8.1. ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ

8.2. ์œ ์šฉํ•œ ์ž์› ์•ˆ๋‚ด

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