{"id":65285,"date":"2026-02-27T14:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/?post_type=sermon-illustrations&p=65285"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:35:34","slug":"tech-billionaire-will-live-forever-as-an-a-i","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/tech-billionaire-will-live-forever-as-an-a-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Billionaire Will Live Forever As An A.I."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked if he will ever die, he responded:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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\u2019ve 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\u2019ve ever said.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Power and money will no longer be life’s number one priority:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Most people today spend every waking moment pursuing wealth; and the time they\u2019re not spending pursuing wealth,<\/a> they\u2019re 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\u2019t 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\u2019s the shift that\u2019s starting to happen right now.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI immortality must happen for humanity to survive:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“My solution for this is we choose to not die. That\u2019s it. I\u2019m not arguing for immortality. I\u2019m 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\u2019re going to survive this moment. We are already at each other\u2019s throats. We have nuclear annihilation as a possibility. It\u2019s 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\u2019s it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson intends to use his fame, among other resources, to make this future come true:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“If I had to choose between fame and a billion dollars, I would choose fame 100 times out of 100. It\u2019s very hard to achieve. It\u2019s uniquely valuable. I get access to almost anyone in the entire world at this point. 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