Most work for AI in life extension could be done by narrow AIs, like needed data-crunching for modelling genetic networks or control of medical nanobots. Quick ascending of self-improving—and benevolent—AI may be a last chance for survival for old person who will never survive until these narrow AI services, but then again, such person could make a safer bet on cryonics.
Safer for the universe maybe, perhaps not for the old person themselves. Cryonics is highly speculative-it *should* work, given that if your information is preserved it should be possible to reconstruct you, and cooling a system enough should reduce thermal noise and reactivity enough to preserve information… but we just don’t know. From the perspective of someone near death, counting on cryonics might be as risky or more so than a quick AI.
Most work for AI in life extension could be done by narrow AIs, like needed data-crunching for modelling genetic networks or control of medical nanobots. Quick ascending of self-improving—and benevolent—AI may be a last chance for survival for old person who will never survive until these narrow AI services, but then again, such person could make a safer bet on cryonics.
Safer for the universe maybe, perhaps not for the old person themselves. Cryonics is highly speculative-it *should* work, given that if your information is preserved it should be possible to reconstruct you, and cooling a system enough should reduce thermal noise and reactivity enough to preserve information… but we just don’t know. From the perspective of someone near death, counting on cryonics might be as risky or more so than a quick AI.