Elon Musk revealed that he recently had an MRI and shared the results with Grok, the AI chatbot developed by his company xAI. According to Musk, neither his doctors nor the AI found anything concerning.
Speaking on Peter Diamandis’ podcast Moonshots, Musk said he followed his own advice by uploading the scan to Grok after the test. “I did an MRI recently and submitted it to Grok,” he said. “None of the doctors nor Grok found anything.” He didn’t explain what prompted the scan, but the conversation touched on the growing interest in longevity and the role AI could play in future healthcare.
Across Silicon Valley, several tech leaders are investing heavily in research aimed at slowing aging and extending life. Figures like Sam Altman and Peter Thiel have poured millions into longevity projects, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has suggested that AI could potentially double human life expectancy by 2030.
Musk has also encouraged others to use Grok for a second opinion on medical results. He recently shared a story about a Norwegian man who said the chatbot urged him to return to the hospital, where doctors then discovered his appendix was close to rupturing — something they had initially missed.
While Musk believes AI can become highly effective in medical diagnostics, he’s less enthusiastic about the idea of true immortality. He called it “one of the worst curses you could possibly give anyone,” though he added that slowing or preventing aging seems like a solvable problem. “The body is so synchronized in its aging that the clock must be incredibly obvious,” he said.
During the same discussion, Diamandis invited Musk to get involved with Fountain Life, a longevity company he cofounded with Tony Robbins and William Kapp. The company offers AI-driven diagnostics and deep health scans, aiming to catch serious problems early. As Diamandis put it, the first rule of this approach to medicine is simple: “Don’t die of anything stupid.”
He added that the goal is to create a complete digital profile of a person — from genome to full-body imaging — and stressed that he wouldn’t want Musk to repeat the mistake of Steve Jobs, who later regretted delaying surgery for his pancreatic cancer before his death in 2011.