Ben Goertzel says superintelligence could unlock an anti-aging pill soon
YvesMulkers · x · 2026-07-20
The post riffs on Ben Goertzel’s claim that superintelligent AI could make an anti-aging pill possible within 2–4 years.
In the cited quote, Goertzel argues that aging is basically cellular wear-and-tear, not a fixed law of nature. He says scientists already know old cells can be made young again in the lab; what’s missing is an intelligence capable of coordinating repair across the body’s 37 trillion cells.
He extends the idea to his own parents, suggesting that if superintelligence arrives in time, they may not die from old age.
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