Age reversal is the tech worlds holy grail can AI make it reality?

In this excerpt from “We Are As Gods: A Survival God for the Age of Abundance,” authors Peter H.Diamandis and Steven Kotler explore what it means to be human in a world where technology has granted us seemingly limitless power.

If it sometimes seems like humans can play at being God, the real question is how to do it wisely. The next frontier is longevity — the attempt to rewrite the rules of life and death.At the center of these efforts is a general consensus: Biology is a code that gets buggy over time.This bugginess is what we call aging.

But like all codes, biology can be debugged.Few have pushed this idea further than Harvard geneticist David Sinclair, who argues that aging isn’t a loss of function but a loss of information — making it a problem of software, not hardware.Information recovery tools are piling up: CRISPR lets us edit the genome; Yamanaka factors, a set of four transcription genes, roll back the biological age of cells; cellular reprogramming, epigenetic editing, mitochondrial enhancement.

Each of these technologies adds more possibility, and all of them are being accelerated by AI.“What we do now [using AI] in a month would’ve taken thousands of years,” Sinclair explained on Peter’s Moonshots podcast.AI lets Sinclair simulate trillions of molecules, screening for the rare combinations that reverse aging at the epigenetic level.

His team has identified four key enzyme pathways.If you inhibit three and activate one, you can reset a cell’s biological clock.

It’s called epigenetic reprogramming, a technique that suggests we can reverse aging altogether.Just five years ago, age reversal was a crazy idea.“In 2017, it was just a theory,” Sinclair notes.

By 2020, he proved it worked in the lab.Now, AI is accelerating the transition into human trials.By 2026 or so, these compounds could do everything from smooth wrinkled skin to revitalize decrepit organs in as little as four weeks.

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