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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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  • A.I. isn't really what it says it is "Intelligent", it doesn't come up with new ideas, if you teach it to do one thing then it can do it really well, but don't expect it to come up with new ideas.

    If you hope A.I. will help you live forever, you will be waiting forever in hope.

  • in reply to Trev

    currently*  ( as in 10 years ago no-one thought or believed AI could do what it's doing today ) we have not reached AGI or ASI yet*, now there is a possibility that AI will never be able to think for itself but all we need to do is try every combinations of drugs till one works! so less AI and more down to computing power! 

  • in reply to Zyphullen

    Some research already uses machines/A.I. to investigate combinations of existing molecules/drugs as treatments, however a lot of discoveries have been made due to accidents, unexpected results or unexpected failures which would most likely not be recorded using the machines/A.I. method other than as simple failures.  So although using these methods can speed up research many possible new research areas are likely to be missed resulting in less overall progress.

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  • in reply to Zyphullen

    Some research already uses machines/A.I. to investigate combinations of existing molecules/drugs as treatments, however a lot of discoveries have been made due to accidents, unexpected results or unexpected failures which would most likely not be recorded using the machines/A.I. method other than as simple failures.  So although using these methods can speed up research many possible new research areas are likely to be missed resulting in less overall progress.

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