OM DENNE EPISODE
Twenty years ago, Dr. Derya Unutmaz predicted we would reverse aging by 2045. People thought he was crazy.
Now, he thinks he was too conservative, and has moved the date up to 2040 because AGI arrived earlier than he expected.
I sat down with Derya to ask if such bold predictions are too fatalistic. Is the future guaranteed? Shall we just sit back and wait for AI to save us? Derya disagreed.
The golden age for humanity is within our sights, but there is much work to be done.
Academia is failing us. If it doesn’t adapt to the pace of progress AI enables, we have no shot at curing aging this century. And we need to invest trillions into collecting the data that superintelligence will need to solve biology.
There is much work to be done, but if we pull it off, the future can be brighter than anyone imagines.
Dr. Derya Unutmaz is a Jackson Laboratory immunologist whose roughly 190 scientific publications have been cited more than 30,000 times.
Special thank you to Adam Gries and vitalismfoundation.org for hosting us at Vitalist Bay!
