How Old Are You, Really?

Phil and Stephen discuss how artificial intelligence might help to add years to our lives.

AI Scientists Via Their ‘Aging Clock’ May Have Discovered How To Rewind Our Biological Clocks

A group of scientists who study Artificial Intelligence (AI) say they’ve come up with a process that can not only measure biological age, but tell you whether you will live longer or die younger than other people your age, and how to increase your odds that you will do the former.

Early days, but this is an important step towards detaching chronological age from biological age.

One day there will be little or no correspondence. Someone apparently in their 20’s may be chronologically older than someone who looks like and has all the aging markers of someone in their 80’s.

Like in Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, people will have a preferred “apparent” age

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Phil Bowermaster is a nationally recognized author and speaker. He has more than 25 years experience writing about emerging technologies and the future. As co-host of the popular Internet radio series, The World Transformed, Phil has talked with leading scientists and technologists, best-selling authors, philosophers, filmmakers, artists, entrepreneurs and others who are shaping our understanding of the amazing era of transformation in which we live. Phil helps leaders and their organizations develop strategies for managing accelerating change. He shows how imagination, optimism, empathy, and humor can make all the difference in both understanding and making the most of the powerful currents of change we face.