Tech billionaire and author Bryan Johnson was recently interviewed by the popular tech magazine Wired (30 million monthly readers across several platforms). A highly successful entrepreneur and anti-aging practitioner, he has more than 4 million followers across YouTube, Instagram, and X. He is best known as the subject of the 2025 Netflix documentary “Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever”.
When asked if he will ever die, he responded:
“Death has always been inevitable, so we have made all these preparations. We talk about immortality in professional achievements. We talk about life after death. There are the ways that we’ve dealt with death up to this point. And now we have this real possibility of extending our lifespans to some unknown horizon. …….. So currently, in a very crude form, I have a Bryan AI that has digested everything I’ve ever said.”
Power and money will no longer be life’s number one priority:
“Most people today spend every waking moment pursuing wealth; and the time they’re not spending pursuing wealth, they’re pursuing some sort of status or prestige. When you give birth to superintelligence, you can start extending lifespans to some unknown horizon: 200 years, 1,000 years, 10,000 years. Millions of years. We don’t know. When that happens, the entire game of humanity shifts from that singular focus on wealth accumulation and status and prestige to existence. Now, embedded in existence, we may still play games of power, but it will be conditioned that existence itself is the highest virtue. That’s the shift that’s starting to happen right now.”
AI immortality must happen for humanity to survive:
“My solution for this is we choose to not die. That’s it. I’m not arguing for immortality. I’m not arguing for utopia. We as a species, our existence is at risk. We do not know if humans have a role in the future. We do not know if we’re going to survive this moment. We are already at each other’s throats. We have nuclear annihilation as a possibility. It’s a moment where we evolve into a species who say: The single thing we have in common is that nobody wants to die right now. That’s it.”
Johnson intends to use his fame, among other resources, to make this future come true:
“If I had to choose between fame and a billion dollars, I would choose fame 100 times out of 100. It’s very hard to achieve. It’s uniquely valuable. I get access to almost anyone in the entire world at this point. If the goal is to create the fastest-growing ideology in the history of the human race and to pair it with the time when the species is evolving into something else, you need fame.”