THE ETERNAL DEBATE

Artificial Intelligence is advancing fast enough to start saving human memories and thoughts forever, leading to an era of digital immortality. These AI-created clones can simulate human behaviour, learning from their human counterparts. Once trained well enough, an ‘eternal’ can become a path to spiritual changes by giving us deep insights into life, memory and perspectives. Tech entrepreneur Henrique Jorge has been working at ETER9 to achieve this, a world where these clones will be able to ensure that a human being is remembered forever. “Imagine, Einstein could live in this platform and teach the students directly in the digital way,” he explained during a session at the India Today Conclave.

- K. ASIF ARUN KUMAR HARDIK CHHABRA

Such AI technology is also becoming relevant for biohacking, which can use the deep machine understanding of a human being to push the boundaries of longevity and improve health outcomes by “switching off” certain harmful genes in the body. “What’s the harm in living absolutely healthy for 120 years and contributing the best to society?” asked Sajee