Speaking of which, check out Michael I. Jordans work on Probabilistic Graphical Models https://www.google.com/search?q=michael+i+jordan+probalistic...

Mentor to Andrew Ng, former head of Google AI, Baidu and a few other things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_I._Jordan

Saira, Mina and David worked on some interesting stuff related to using ML/AI in extending human life span, nematodes a while back. Statistical modeling of biomedical corpora: mining the Caenorhabditis Genetic Center Bibliography for genes related to life span - Blei DM, Franks K, Jordan MI, Mian IS. - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1533868