Humanity CEO Dario Amodei, who holds a Ph.D. in biophysics from Princeton and was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford before joining Silicon Valley, believes advances in AI could soon allow humans to live twice as long. I am. “I don’t think doubling the human lifespan is at all crazy given what we might expect humans to achieve in fields like biology in 100 years,” he said yesterday (January 23). ), was speaking at the World in 2025 Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
He added that this vision could be realized as soon as 2030.
This is not the first time Amodei has praised the potential of AI in biology and health. He emphasized this optimism in a long essay in October, explaining that advances in AI will eventually cure nearly all natural infectious diseases, eliminate most cancers, and create effective treatments for genetic diseases. He said it could lead to this.
Amodei said that over the past three to six months, he has become increasingly confident that AI systems are on track to eventually outperform humans at almost every task. His confidence in the speed of technology has solidified with the introduction of a model that reflects the capabilities of a Ph.D. students in fields such as mathematics, programming, and biology. “My guess is that by 2026 or 2027, we will have an AI that is broadly better than all humans at almost everything,” he said.
While AI claims to enable acceleration in areas such as health, military applications, and the workplace, Amodei acknowledged that limits to rapid progress remain. “What is most likely to hinder us in positive applications are the limitations of the physical world and human institutions,” he said. For example, advances in autonomous driving are constrained by deployment cycles and legislation. He added that AI’s drug contributions still need to undergo clinical trials.
Before founding Humanity in 2020, Amodei was Vice President of Research at Openai. Since then, humanity has emerged as one of Openai’s strongest competitors. The startup is reportedly speaking for a funding round that values the company at $60 billion. According to CNBC, it recently received $1 billion in funding from Google (Google).
