Google Has the Data, but Health AI Researchers Need Your Consent

Google project managers called Camille Nebeker out of the blue, intrigued by her paper on using artificial intelligence for healthy aging. The tech giant sees a new market for its products, which could generate reams of new data for researchers studying AI in health—provided they can close the gap on consent.

The conversation with Nebeker, an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego’s medical school, has Google considering testing products beyond the 15-to-35-year-old consumer market it had previously targeted.

“And now they just want to go out to the retirement communities and start collecting data from residents to ...