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Podcast: Bringing ancient wellbeing to the AI age – WONE’s Reeva Misra

WONE founder discusses AI and wellbeing on the UKTN Podcast

This week’s UKTN Podcast guest is Walking on Earth CEO and founder Reeva Misra, who discusses the real science backing up ancient wellbeing practices, how attitudes to mental health benefits at businesses are changing for the better and how AI could improve personal happiness.

Misra founded Walking on Earth (WONE), which uses AI to assess the stress levels of users and provide personalised interventions, in 2020 after almost three years at BenevolentAI.

Misra was inspired to develop tech-powered stress relief after examining medical research that found combatting stress is a powerful preventative measure when dealing with physical and mental health.

In this episode, the WONE founder discusses how the “new normal” of post-pandemic life has created new sources of stress and new manifestations of stress. She also explains how newer generations have different approaches to workplace wellbeing, with a greater emphasis on self-care and health benefits.

“People are our most important asset,” Misra tells the UKTN Podcast. “Businesses wouldn’t exist without the people within them and so it just should be fundamental I think it should be a necessity for every workplace to be investing in the wellbeing of their people.”

Elsewhere, Misra discusses the role that AI has to play in the wellbeing space.

“My view on AI is that if we can use it to augment human expertise we will go a long way towards being able to make better discoveries, better predictions and have a huge impact on our lives,” she says. 

Listen to the full episode here, along with all previous episodes of the UKTN Podcast.

The UKTN Podcast is sponsored by HSBC Innovation Banking, which offers flexible banking solutions for startups, scaleups, growth businesses, investors and those working towards IPO.

Throughout the series, the UKTN Podcast will be speaking to some of the key movers and shakers from UK tech. We’ll learn growth strategies from both seasoned and up-and-coming founders, hear market sentiments from investors, and question policymakers on the decisions impacting the country’s innovation economy.

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