Michio Kaku: AI Will Help Us Discover Genetic Immortality | AI Podcast Clips
00:00:00.000 | Do you think one day technology will allow individual human beings to become immortal
00:00:06.760 | besides just through the ability to digitize our essence?
00:00:10.520 | Yeah, I think that artificial intelligence will give us the key to genetic immortality.
00:00:16.440 | You see, in the coming decades, everyone's going to have their gene sequenced.
00:00:20.560 | We'll have billions of genomes of old people, billions of genomes of young people.
00:00:26.040 | And what are we going to do with it?
00:00:27.480 | We're going to run it through an AI machine, which has pattern recognition, to look for
00:00:32.240 | the age genes.
00:00:34.360 | In other words, the fountain of youth that emperors, kings, and queens lusted over, the
00:00:41.200 | fountain of youth will be found by artificial intelligence.
00:00:45.800 | Artificial intelligence will identify where these age genes are located.
00:00:51.600 | First of all, what is aging?
00:00:53.080 | We now know what aging is.
00:00:55.520 | Aging is the buildup of errors.
00:00:59.000 | That's all aging is, the buildup of genetic errors.
00:01:02.880 | This means that cells eventually become slower, sluggish, and they go into senescence, and
00:01:08.240 | they die.
00:01:09.240 | In fact, that's why we die.
00:01:13.000 | We die because of the buildup of mistakes in our genome, in our cellular activity.
00:01:20.000 | But you see, in the future, we'll be able to fix those genes with CRISPR-type technologies,
00:01:24.800 | and perhaps even live forever.
00:01:26.680 | So let me ask you a question.
00:01:28.560 | Where does aging take place in a car?
00:01:31.560 | Given a car, where does aging take place?
00:01:33.920 | Well, it's obvious, the engine, right?
00:01:36.680 | A, that's where you have a lot of moving parts.
00:01:39.120 | B, that's where you have combustion.
00:01:41.160 | Well, where in the cell do we have combustion?
00:01:46.440 | The mitochondria.
00:01:48.060 | We now know where aging takes place.
00:01:51.480 | And if we cure many of the mistakes that build up in the mitochondria of the cell, we could
00:01:56.320 | become immortal.
00:01:58.640 | Let me ask you, if you yourself could become immortal, would you?
00:02:05.560 | Damn straight.
00:02:06.560 | No, I think about it for a while, because of course, it depends on how you become immortal.
00:02:14.120 | You know, there's a famous myth of Tithonus.
00:02:16.800 | It turns out that years ago, in the Greeks mythology, there was the saga of Tithonus
00:02:23.040 | and Aurora.
00:02:24.440 | Aurora was the goddess of the dawn, and she fell in love with a mortal, a human called
00:02:30.400 | Tithonus.
00:02:31.680 | And so Aurora begged Zeus to grant her the gift of immortality to give to her lover.
00:02:41.560 | So Zeus took pity on Aurora and made Tithonus immortal.
00:02:46.440 | But you see, Aurora made a mistake, a huge mistake.
00:02:51.760 | She asked for immortality, but she forgot to ask for eternal youth.
00:02:58.440 | So poor Tithonus got older and older and older every year, decrepit, a bag of bones, but
00:03:05.800 | he could never die.
00:03:08.000 | Never die.
00:03:09.000 | Quality of life is important.
00:03:10.880 | So I think immortality is a great idea, as long as you also have immortal youth as well.
00:03:17.400 | Now I personally believe, and I cannot prove this, but I personally believe that our grandkids
00:03:21.760 | may have the option of reaching the age of 30 and then stopping.
00:03:27.460 | They may like being age 30, because you have wisdom, you have all the benefits of age and
00:03:33.760 | maturity, and you still live forever with a healthy body.
00:03:38.600 | Our descendants may like being 30 for several centuries.
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