Zoltan Istvan believes that artificial intelligence will advance in 10 to 15 years. Such progress, according to the transhumanist politician, will address all of the concerns of the human civilization, including the slowing down or blocking of the aging process through the combination of technology and human selves. For Istvan, the likelihood does not include in the field of weird science fiction. He thinks that artificial intelligence, which is a computer brain that is capable of doing anything which humans do, is about to come soon, and that the US should develop it first. He noted that the government must have a plan in order to deal with it before the "arms race of civilization" arrives.