Artificial Intelligence

The article frames humanity as being close to creating superintelligence, after which future possibilities become unknown. The article treats survival through the superintelligence transition as a precondition for future creativity and meaning. The envisioned clinical workflow is an AI engine that ingests a patient's full biomarker stack and outputs a personalized fasting schedule. The article says advanced AI makes fixed assumptions about human lifespan and health less adequate. The article includes preventing AI from killing humans as one dimension of the species-level “don’t die” mandate. AI is considered a necessary tool for extracting actionable patterns from the high-dimensional datasets generated by microbiome research.