I envision something like this.

Simple. The AI will build something that makes you immortal.

Yeah, I like what they’re putting down, but I don’t understand the AI = immortality bit.

I thought either; the AI is going to help research a biological immortality solution, or; the AI is going to be an immortal avatar for these dickbags.

It’s four short paragraphs. And you can read between the lines. Perhaps you’ve been using AI too much? 😁

Anyway, it’s pretty obvious. Human biologists aren’t going to crack immortality in time for Musk or Thiel. So they’ve put all their hopes in the Singularity. They want to create superhuman intelligence that is better than humans at everything - including making new AIs and medical discoveries. The whole idea of the Singularity is that we have an intelligence explosion that, in a relatively short order, completely transforms human science and technology, advancing us by millennia over the course of a decade. And that kind of explosive advancement in biology really is the only chance that anyone already middle age or older, or perhaps even anyone currently alive, will live to see radical life extension.

There’s nothing in the laws of physics, the only real hard laws, that prevents us from curing aging. It’s just a really, really hard science and engineering problem. Biology is complicated. And to change something as fundamental as lifespan? It’s likely to take us centuries to make meaningful progress on it. But if you build millions of artificial minds, each with an intellect that makes Einstein look like a moron? That’s the kind of research team that might be able to crack the aging problem. Or at least, that’s what the tech billionaires are putting their faith in.