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AI possibility of cure to all diseases and extending human lifespan indefinitely

Zyphullen

Experts say AI will fix all diseases and stop death forever. Demis Hassabis, the DeepMind boss, says AI could fix all diseases in 10 years by finding drugs super fast. Ray Kurzweil, the future guy, says AI gets something called longevity escape velocity in the 2030s with tiny robots that fix your body forever. Peter Diamandis, the prize maker, says AI makes your healthy life go to 120 years or more by fixing your personal genes with AI. I am an atheist. I respect religion the same exact way they respect me—one-to-one, equal, no more no less, exact match. My idea is this: if AI stops all diseases and stops aging so life goes forever, we need a law to ban it for religious people. It has to be illegal for them. Why ban it? Step by step logic. First, death is needed for heaven—the Bible says you die first then go to heaven, but no death means stuck on earth forever, no heaven, just a bad trap. Second, suicide is the only way to die then, but the Bible says suicide is a sin that sends you straight to hell, no heaven, so they'd have to pick hell just to escape, which is wrong and forces them bad. Third, it's not fair because it creates a paradox for religious people who believe heaven comes after death, but the tech breaks that belief completely, while atheists like me have no problem living forever, so it's unequal hurt just for them. Fourth, the law protects their religious freedom by letting them opt out and keep the normal death path to heaven, and we respect their rules exactly like they should respect ours for a fair system. So ban it. Logical fix! what do you think?

Edit: sorry i limited my thinking to only 1 religion as there is over 3000 different religions world wide!

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  • Not all experts agree with these claims and DeepMind has its own interest in going along with it. I don’t believe that anything will fix all diseases and stop death. Even if we imagined it was possible, it is likely that the individual would be responsible for deciding if they want to live forever or not. It is likely that in order to live forever, the individual would need to take positive action in the form of drugs/gene therapy or whatever. However, most Christian denominations believe it is not a sin to abstain from taking extraordinary measures to extend life. So there won’t be a problem. 

    Regarding the Bible, some religious people have a literal understanding of how the Bible should be read, but most Christians would understand that the texts were written to be read on several different levels which means that not every word was intended to be taken literally. E.g., Christians in Japan many years ago, had no access to bread made from wheat for Holy Communion, so they used rice to make bread. They didn’t believe that they would go to hell if they didn’t do as Jesus said. The God of the Bible does not expect people to do the impossible so your scenario about death and hell would not be a consideration for most. 

    Your problem will not exist in many thousands of years from now as astronomers and physicists believe the earth will eventually be destroyed by natural forces. People of all religions will be physically equal to those of no religion because the earth and all on it will cease to exist. We come from nothing and we go to nothing. 

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    Would we really want to live for ever? I'm not sure I would and I don't believe AI will be able to find cures for things like osteoarthritis, and I wouldn't want to be clunking about in an exoskeleton.

    If we all lived indefinately we'd have to stop having children or over corwding and running out of resourses would be a serious problem, far more so than it is now.

    Also not all of us are Christians and believe in heaven and hell in the same way, many of us believe in an afterlife and in reincarnation.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    run out of resources ? that is impossible if you look up! now if you expect every human to live on Earth and never expand beyond our home maybe but that would be the same as saying never leave your house, then yes if you never left your home you'd run out of food!

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  • in reply to ArchaeC

    I'd personally say going faster then speed of light is on a similar level to difficulty as curing all diseases and ageing! so they come toe in toe, plus many other planets to terra-form to our needs or just build a spaceship as big or bigger then planet Earth or make our own Earth combining asteroids Earth 2.0 and in future  ( where do you live, i like on Earth 2678! of 10 trillion different Earths! )

  • in reply to Zyphullen

    It is fact that our earth contains a limited amount of precious metals and other necessary resources — scientists have made this abundantly clear.

    I don’t want to be around when they start exploiting other planets because they have used up all the earth’s resources. I can just imagine that the US White House would be made of the newly discovered precious metal ‘trumpzillioncon’. Art, natural history and the ability to contemplate the innate beauty of the world would be confined to AI’s memory.

    But back to your hypothesis — thankfully we will all be dead by the time scientists manage to extract sufficient elements from other planets to support our life.