How to Increase Your Life Expectancy by 10 Years Using AI

Step 1: Start an AI-based startup.

Step 2: Become a billionaire.

Done! You’ve increased your life expectancy by more than 10 years.

Although this might sound like a bad joke, there’s truth to the idea. In the U.S., if you’re among the top 1% of earners, your average life expectancy is more than 15 years longer than that of the lowest 1%. It’s also over 10 years longer than the average American’s life expectancy.

But why is that? Surely, it must be the evil insurance companies!

While many Americans (myself included) may not be fans of insurance companies, they aren’t the culprits in this case. Most of the best healthcare institutions in the U.S. accept nearly all insurance plans, and the average American has access to health insurance.

So, if it’s not insurance companies, maybe it’s the food? Are wealthy people poisoning our food while eating exclusively organic, specially harvested food themselves?

Not quite. Organic food accounts for only 6% of all food sold in the U.S. Unless the ultra-wealthy 1% are consuming all of that 6%, their extended life expectancy must have another explanation. And average Americans have access?

The simple answer is this: they rely on the same healthcare systems we do, but their experience is vastly different. While the U.S. boasts some of the world’s best healthcare institutions, these centers of excellence operate as isolated islands. Successfully navigating between them to achieve optimal outcomes requires a skilled coordinator to steer the process—something accessible only to the ultra-wealthy. They often employ dedicated teams to manage every aspect of their healthcare: consolidating medical records, scheduling appointments, coordinating treatments, interpreting complex medical information, and critically evaluating recommendations. Such custom concierge service is what some call “billionaires healthcare”.

This level of custom specific care coordination is unavailable and unaffordable for most of us. As a result, only those who can afford such concierge services—or those fortunate enough to have a loved one invest the time to fill this role—can truly benefit from the system’s full potential.

For the past decade, I’ve observed my dad, a retired physician, perform this role for my mom. He’s acted as her record aggregator, keeper, and transmitter; her care coordinator and scheduler; her interpreter of medical jargon; and her medications auditor. In my mind, his efforts have substantially extended my mom’s life expectancy substantially.

I know for a fact that I don’t have the knowledge, patience, organizational skills, or attention to detail required to ensure smooth sailing through these isolated islands of excellence. This is why the ultra-wealthy are able to gain, on average, 10 extra years of life over the rest of us.

So, what can we do? Fortunately, technology has historically been a great equalizer.

For example, in ancient times, only the elite had access to hot water on demand. Today, thanks to technology, it’s a standard feature in most homes. Similarly, when I was a kid, only the ultra-wealthy had brick-sized mobile phones. Now, nearly everyone carries a much more advanced phone in their pocket.

That’s the beauty of automation and technology: not only does it scale up functions previously reserved for the privileged, but it also improves upon what the ultra-wealthy could afford.

This is the vision that inspired the founding team at Azcare.AI. We’re committed to democratizing what has historically been “billionaire healthcare.” It is already capable of providing tremendous value to users, and a significant step toward this goal. But it may not have fully achieved this vision yet, but with dedication, hard work, and support from the patient advocacy community, we’ll get there.