In this episode of the THE Connect podcast, produced in partnership with the University of Liverpool, host Ashton Wenborn speaks with Iain Buchan, W.H. Duncan Chair in Public Health Systems and associate pro vice-chancellor for innovation, and Procheta Sen, lecturer in computer science at the University of Liverpool. They discuss the university's the AI for Life research frontier, which places human needs at its core, rather than focusing solely on technology. This approach is deeply interdisciplinary, bringing together expertise from computer science, engineering, health, social sciences and the humanities.