The 48-year-old said that the 14-year goal is based on “new, promising therapies that can turn back the clock decades,” while adding that thanks to AI, it’s actually a very “reasonable target.”
First, he argued, his team just need to fix some of the “buggy” issues, like therapies that are “mistakenly causing cancer.”
The Braintree, Kernel, and most recently, Blueprint, founder admitted that his team “currently do not know” how project 2039 immortality will be achieved. But he revealed the efforts they’re going to to get there, including looking into jellyfish cells and the enzymes of lobsters, which are both linked to slow ageing. “We need to port the software to humans,” Johnson added.
That, coupled with the “AI-driven rate of innovation” and using his own body as a guinea pig, is where he thinks the real acceleration will happen.
Now, after six years of prodding and testing, he maintains that, biologically, he has not aged a day.
“To speed things up now, I’m currently having thousands of Bryan Johnson organ clones built in a dish,” Johnson said. “This will allow me to test drugs and other molecules against my biology to accelerate learning and save my body from potential mishaps.”
“Yes, we’ll make mistakes. Hopefully they won’t be fatal,” he concluded, adding that he’ll be sharing the results of his research on his platform Blueprint for free.
For the average human—what he calls a “suicidal species” that “unnecessarily kill ourselves with what we eat and how we live our lives”—he’ll provide details on how to copy his million-dollar-routine with “a fraction of the cost and effort.”
Then, with the help of a team of 30 specialists, he undergoes daily body fat scans, routine MRIs, and often, invasive blood and stool sample tests to see the biological age of his organs.
