{"id":229492,"date":"2026-01-21T06:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/moonshots-with-peter-diamandis"},"modified":"2026-01-21T06:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:03:59","slug":"moonshots-with-peter-diamandis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/moonshots-with-peter-diamandis","title":{"rendered":"Moonshots with Peter Diamandis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_PcL4w--uNs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ray, you\u2019ve made two predictions that I think are important. The first one, as you said, was the one you announced back in 1989: that we would reach human-level AI by 2029. And as you said, people laughed at it.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s another prediction you\u2019ve made: that we will reach the Singularity by 2045. There\u2019s a lot of confusion here. In other words, if we reach human-level AI by 2029 and it then grows exponentially, why do we have to wait until 2045 for the Singularity? Could you explain the difference between these two?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s because that\u2019s the point at which our intelligence will become a thousand times greater. One of the ways my view differs from others is that I don\u2019t see it as us having our own intelligence\u2014that is, biological intelligence\u2014while AI exists somewhere else, and we interact with it by comparing human intelligence to AI.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Founder of XPRIZE and pioneer in exponential technologies. Building a world of Abundance through innovation, longevity, and breakthrough ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray, you\u2019ve made two predictions that I think are important. The first one, as you said, was the one you announced back in 1989: that we would reach human-level AI by 2029. And as you said, people laughed at it. But there\u2019s another prediction you\u2019ve made: that we will reach the Singularity by 2045. There\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,269,2020,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-life-extension","category-peter-diamandis","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}