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

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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  • First, death is needed for heaven—the Bible says you die first then go to heaven

    That is really only for Christian based religions. Others have reincarnation so this is persecuting against them. Because of this it will never be considerd by legal sources even if public morality would accept it.

    I also don't believe there is any religious issue with living an incredibly long life either - it is only the end that is at question in your logic. 

    There remains death by misadventure where drugs will not work - falling into a volcano for example, having a wall collapse on top of you etc.

    For me the biggest issue would be the economic and resource consumption one. The world would not be able to feed all the ballooning population, the wealthy would hoard all the money making the poor a massive underclass and they would soon find ways to control the distribution of the drugs / nanobots or whatever to prevent the poor from being able to do more than be their resources.

  • also fair point on religion, i was only pointing at 1 religion and i was limiting my thinking there, there is around 3000 different religions so many different view points! sorry good point!

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