{"id":244375,"date":"2026-09-22T17:03:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/the-singularity-is-nearer-conversations-with-ray-kurzweil"},"modified":"2026-09-22T17:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:03:37","slug":"the-singularity-is-nearer-conversations-with-ray-kurzweil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/the-singularity-is-nearer-conversations-with-ray-kurzweil","title":{"rendered":"The Singularity Is Nearer: Conversations With Ray Kurzweil"},"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\/xh2v5oC5Lx4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ray Kurzweil explains why he still expects AGI by 2029, radical life extension in the 2030s, and a technological singularity by 2045.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Kurzweil explains why he still expects AGI by 2029, radical life extension in the 2030s, and a technological singularity by 2045.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,2018,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244375","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}