Elon Musk says aging can be reversed, but death too has 'benefits' for society, helps in stopping...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made his first-ever appearance on the stage of World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos, Switzerland. In his debut appearance, Musk declared that aging is a ‘very solvable problem’. He suggests that humanity may be on the cusp of reversing the biological clock. As reported by Business Insider, speaking onstage with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, the Tesla chief offered a provocative take on longevity, societal implications of immortality and cellular aging. “When we figure out what causes aging, I think we’ll find it’s incredibly obvious,” Musk said. “All the cells in your body age at the same rate. I’ve never seen someone with an old left arm and a young right arm.”

Musk also speculated that a master biological clock must be synchronizing the aging process across the body’s 35 trillion cells — a mechanism he believes science will soon decode. Yet, Musk tempered his optimism with a philosophical warning: death, he argued, serves a purpose. “There is some benefit to death,” he said. “If people live for a very long time, there’s a risk of ossification of things getting locked in place. It may become stultifying. A lack of vibrancy.”

Elon Musk’s surprise appearance at World Economic Forum

Musk took the stage at the global conference he has long derided as "boring" confab of out-of-touch elites. And the man who interviewed Elon Musk is Blackrock CEO Larry Fink. Introducing Elon Musk, Fink said, "There are so many myths around Elon Musk. I could tell you he is a great friend, and I constantly learn so much from him. I am totally inspired by what he has done... Who he is... His vision of the future, and I don't think it's such a bad future."

Elon Musk also made a robot promise at the event. Musk said that Tesla expects to sell humanoid robots to the public by the end of next year, later than the timeline he had previously outlined. "Who wouldn't want a robot to watch over your kids, take care of your pet... If you had a robot that could take care and protect an elderly parent, that'd be great," he told the audience.


His Optimus robots will be doing more complex tasks later this year, he said, and "by the end of next year I think we'll be selling humanoid robots to the public". Musk also predicted the artificial intelligence boom will have models that are "smarter than any human by the end of this year, and I would say no later than next year".