Tech millionaire turned longevity pioneer Bryan Johnson devotes more than 6 hours a day to trialling different methods to turn back the clock. Can the rest of us learn anything from his radical approach? Bryan Johnson is finishing his 6.5-hour morning routine when I sign on to Zoom for my allotted 15-minute call with him (a constraint of what a member of his team describes as his "crazy" schedule). The tech millionaire turned longevity pioneer is standing in front of a cement wall in his California home, the coldness of which is relieved by green bursts of tropical houseplants. Wearing a helmet-like headset, a few wires trailing out and down past the screen, together with a black T-shirt bearing the words "Don't Die", the effect is somewhere between a luxury Balinese villa and a VR store designed by Apple.

I sat down with Johnson at an event for people interested in longevity in Berkeley, California, in late April. We spoke on the sidelines after lunch (conference plastic-lidded container meal for me; what seemed to be a plastic-free, compostable box of chicken and vegetables for him), and he sat with an impeccable posture, his expression neutral. Earlier that morning, Johnson, in worn trainers and the kind of hoodie that is almost certainly deceptively expensive, had told the audience about what he saw as the end of humanity. Specifically, he was worried about AI--that we face an "event horizon," a point at which superintelligent AI escapes human understanding and control. He had come to Berkeley to persuade people who are interested in longevity to focus their efforts on AI.

Johnson spends millions every year in order to find a way to make his organs similar to that of an 18-year-old male. Tech mogul Bryan Johnson claimed on Monday that he has figured out the basics of his program for immortality, and now is working to establish an entirely new "blank slate" for humanity's future. Johnson, an entrepreneur in his 40s, has worked to reverse the aging process by spending millions of dollars on a team of experts monitoring and conducting experiments on his body. A Time magazine article last year described aspects of his regimen as "downing 111 pills every day," "collecting his own stool samples" and "sleeping with a tiny jet pack attached to his penis to monitor his nighttime erections." But now, in 2024, Johnson has "moved on from the basics" of the Blueprint Protocol program he devised, and really wants to "go after culture" because he believes humanity is moving towards a new age.

Johnson spends millions every year in order to find a way to make his organs similar to that of an 18-year-old male. A tech billionaire on a quest to reverse the aging process believes that it is unlikely humanity will survive without the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI). Bryan Johnson, a 46-year-old tech entrepreneur, spends millions yearly on a team of experts monitoring his health and conducting experiments. The goal: Get his organs to look and act like that of an 18-year-old. Some of his regiments include a strict bedtime of 8:30 p.m., taking 111 pills daily, collecting his stool samples, and having a small device attached to his penis to monitor nighttime erections.

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Ever since Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk announced his plans to develop a brain-computer interface (BCI) through his Neuralink startup, BCI technologies have received more attention. Musk, however, wasn't the first to propose the possibility of enhancing human capabilities through brain-computer interfacing. A number of other startups are working on a similar goal, including Braintree founder Bryan Johnson with Kernel. Even the U.S. Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working on one. Now, according to a collaboration of 27 experts--neuroscientists, neurotechnologists, clinicians, ethicists and machine-intelligence engineers--calling themselves the Morningside Group, BCIs present a unique and rather disturbing conundrum in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI). Essentially designed to hack the brain, BCIs themselves run the risk of being hacked by AI. "Such advances could revolutionize the treatment of many conditions, from brain injury and paralysis to epilepsy and schizophrenia, and transform human experience for the better," the experts wrote in a comment piece in the journal Nature.

There is a chip implanted in my hand. Two years ago, a tattooed man backstage at a Berlin tech show used a syringe to insert the chip. The process was no more painful than having my ear pierced, and just as quick. The chip was the size of a grain of rice and gave me a new way to control my phone, but if I'm honest, I underwent the procedure purely for journalistic reasons. Yes, I'll do just about anything for a story.

Needless to say, this effort raises lots of questions--the very questions I raised to him in a conversation recently. Will his answers make you sign up for a brain computer interface? Yes, I feel incredibly constrained in my current configuration. But if some people raise their abilities by brain augmentation, wouldn't people who don't change be at a disadvantage?

Implanting a microchip inside the brain to augment its mental powers has long been a science fiction trope. Now, brain computer interface is suddenly the hot new thing in tech. This spring, Elon Musk started a new company, Neuralink, to do it. Facebook, at its F8 developer's conference, showed a video of an ALS patient typing with her brain. But earlier to the game was Bryan Johnson, an entrepreneur who in 2013 made a bundle by selling his company, Braintree, to Paypal for $800 million.

The internet is overflowing with tips on how to hack your health. From increasing cognitive function by drinking butter-spiked coffee to tracking sleep, stress, and activity levels with increasingly sophisticated fitness wearables, ours is a culture obsessed with optimizing performance. Combining this ethos with recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, it's practically inevitable that the next frontier in achieving superhuman status lies in the rapidly developing field of brain augmentation. Artificial intelligence has already proven its value in making software more intuitive and user-friendly. From voice-activated personal assistants like Alexa and Siri to smarter app authentication through facial recognition technology, we have reached the point where people are starting to trust that the machines are here to improve our lives.