Biohacker Bryan Johnson is back on his soapbox and painting a picture of a utopian future where humans will be able to live forever.
Having set out on his own mission to dial back the clock on himself, Johnson is now confident he can gift immortality to the rest of mankind.
Better yet, we don't have to go full Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade by drinking out of the Holy Grail.
We're not sure why you'd want to live forever when every day seems to bring a new threat of World War III, alien invasions, or artificial intelligence wiping us out, but in terms of clawing back some of our misspent youth, Johnson could be onto something here.
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No stranger to controversy, Johnson is remembered as the health guy who tried to de-age his penis, takes 34 minutes to eat his lunch, and broke the internet when he livestreamed a 'heroic' dose of magic mushrooms.
Outlining his grand plans for the human race, Johnson is adamant that he can achieve immortality by 2039 – he just has to do some tinkering first.
Posting on X, the biohacker explained how the search for the Fountain of Youth is the oldest story ever told, but in the past 24 months, he believes we've genuinely opened the window to making it a reality.
Referring to this 'absolutely insane moment', Johnson gushed that there are "new, promising therapies that can turn back the clock decades." Praising the boom in artificial intelligence for giving us that magic 2039 target, Johnson admitted there are just a few 'buggy' issues that need ironing out.
While we'd argue this is more than a little buggy, he claims certain therapies are "mistakenly causing cancer."
The millionaire went on to say that while he doesn't know how his team will reach that lucrative immortality milestone, he's looking at the slow aging qualities of jellyfish cells and lobster enzymes.
It should be as simple as being able to "port the software to humans," but coupled with the "AI-driven rate of innovation” and by using himself as his own immortality lab rat, he expects things to move rapidly.
Johnson continued: "We know immortality is possible because nature has already solved it. This isn’t a physics problem like trying to travel faster than the speed of light, it’s a biological engineering problem that evolution has cracked multiple times."
He claims he's spent the past six years beavering away, saying: "As crude as longevity technology is today, the improvements I’ve personally seen are stunning.:
His futuristic look ahead involves his current trajectory, where he's "having thousands of Bryan Johnson organ clones built in a dish.”
Johnson wants to "test drugs and other molecules against my biology to accelerate learning and save my body from potential mishaps."
The biohacker loops back to the 2039 goal being as much about AI as it is about humans, with mankind 'surviving' the birth of artificial superintelligence being a major factor: "It’s kind of a big deal. We haven’t done it before. A lot can go wrong.
"I figure that one of the best ways to improve the probability that we build safe AI, and don’t kill each other in the meantime, is to transform our shared aspirations from yolo to don’t die."
Aside from 'buggy' cancer therapies, Johnson warned that we're a 'suicidal species' that's known to do 'really primitive shit'. Ending with a moment of cheerful optimism, Johnson concluded: "The 2039 goal points us in the right direction.
"To say yes to life and no to death. Defiance even."