Peter Diamandis sees the rapid evolution and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) by 2028 as having a demonstrable impact on humanity, akin to the transformative technologies that changed how we live and work. He is talking about the dramatic inventions and discoveries from the 19th through the 21st century. For example, Peter sees modern medicine with antibiotics, imaging, transplants, and more as revolutionary, extending the human lifespan. Add in automobiles, airplanes, telephones, and computers, and the last two centuries have produced a cornucopia of disruptive benefits.
Peter sees AI as even more of a shift as the technology matures, moving from being just an app to something that becomes indispensable in our lives. And he sees it happening as early as 2028.
I have paraphrased liberally from Peter’s Metatrend article in this and the previous two parts of this series. If you have not read them, you can access Part 1 and Part 2 before tackling what follows.
Peter calls his AI Jarvis, borrowing from Tony Stark’s AI, featured in the Iron Man movies. In Part 3, he anticipates how our personal Jarvis will take charge of keeping us healthy.
Part 3 – Our Health Becomes an AI Priority
Has the annual physical doctors used to rely on to gauge wellness become obsolete?
Today, we can track our health using Oura rings, Whoop, Apple and other smart watches, and continuous glucose monitors on our arms. Doctors are still trying to catch up with this health data stream.
Add an AI Jarvis to oversee these wearable medical devices, and you end up with as much as 100 biometrics a day, every day, which it can monitor and see patterns no human clinician ever could.
What this will enable in the next 24 months is a shift from reactive healthcare, where you feel ill and go to the doctor who orders tests, to a world of continuous optimization, with Jarvis noticing subtle changes before even you, the wearer, are aware.
You may receive a Jarvis ping to stand up and move around when you have been sitting in a meeting for 90 minutes.
Or if Jarvis notes your hydration levels are low before you are going into an appointment or meeting, it will remind you to drink something.
If Jarvis detects subtle shifts in your heart rate patterns over several days, in cross-referencing the data with your level of activity over the same period of time, it may recommend that you take a specific anti-inflammatory supplement and schedule a blood test well before you would have noticed anything was amiss.
Your Jarvis AI is not to be confused with a wellness app like the many we see today. Instead, Jarvis will be a preventive medicine engine overseeing your health continuously, forever.
What this is pointing to is a future where you won’t go to the doctor when you feel sick. Instead, your wellness will remain optimized. Rarely will you need a doctor, and it will only happen when Jarvis flags a medical health status change before you even know it exists.
The Bigger Picture
Is Peter blowing smoke, or are his predictions realizable?
Will we even need a family doctor in the future? Likely the answer will continue to be yes, but the role will have changed from a first-contact diagnostician to one that supervises, interprets, triages, and addresses complex care issues. These would include psychological and psychiatric support and quick interventions. Complex care diagnoses will need human involvement, responding to a sudden onset of chest pain, for example, where a quick escalation would be needed, suicidal ideations requiring mental health interventions, complications during pregnancy, or unexpected reactions to medications.
Is AI ready to be the Jarvis caregiver? What about the AI hallucinations we read about or perceived potential for deception?
Without putting words in Peter’s mouth, I would think he would point to the rapid evolution of AI as a bellwether for overcoming and resolving these current imperfections.
Peter poses these questions.
- Are you positioned to thrive in this new era, or scrambling to catch up?
- Are you going AI-first in every part of your life?
- Are you connecting your data so AI agents can serve you?
- Are you experimenting with AI tools that in 18 months may feel antiquated, but will look like genius in hindsight because you have adopted them early?
Peter describes today’s AI as an app. An app is something you open, something you prompt and something you use. But by 2028, a personal Jarvis will not need opening or prompting. It will just be there, a ubiquitous part of our lives. It will be as transformative as the breakthrough technologies of the past that, today, serve in the background. Think of the telephone, a miracle in 1900 and invisible by 1950, and the Internet, astonishing in 1995 and ambient by 2010. AI will follow this same arc, but in compressed time. It won’t be decades. It will be in the next 24 months. To those paying attention, it represents the most significant alteration in daily living since the arrival of the smartphone.
