Sergey Young discusses how brain-computer interfaces like Neuralink could extend life and improve quality for people with dementia and severe conditions. He weighs the excitement and ethical concerns around emerging longevity technologies.
Bulletproof radio, a state of high performance. All right, back to bad stuff might happen, but you'd be willing to do it. All right, what about Neuralink? Would you do a Neuralink if Elon called you tomorrow and said, sergey, I've got a spare one. Well, every time I'm scared about the new technology, I'm always thinking about the cohort of people which actually do need this technology. And I don't know if you watch this movie called the Father with Anthony Hopkins and it's, it's pretty recent movie, so the whole movie done through the eyes of someone who suffers from dementia. And if you think about these people, so for them, integrating their brain, their human intelligence with artificial intelligence is like the only way to sustain the quality of life in the last five to 10 years of their lifespan. So every time I'm scared by technology, I'm just trying to think about like, what is the best use of this today? Like, even gene therapy, when it was invented and gene editing, like CRISPR was invented a couple of decades ago, was available to some of the people with rare genetic diseases. They had nothing to lose. For them, it was like perfect solution because there were no other solutions. So I do think, if you think about Neuralink, it's going to start with what, with this particular cohort, which really requires help and integration, but artificial intelligence. So then we'll have an opportunity to test it and then roll it out. So we at Longevity Vision Fund, we've been struggling to find what are we supporting it should it be like invasive integration or non invasive? And I'm, yeah, I'm big fan of non invasive way of doing that. But this is not the first and probably not the last time when Elon Musk was right and I was wrong. So I'm not going to argue with. And who knows, probably, you know, the invasive way, like similar to what they do in Neuralink and what I've heard, they're going to be starting human trials pretty soon in human terms, might work better. Again, I'm waiting for this in combination of excitement and fear. But in the end of the day, it's a viable piece of technology and I can see a lot of people on Earth which do need that technology. And I can, you know, see a lot of people on Earth which do need that.
