{"id":99584,"date":"2019-12-11T02:59:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T10:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/exclusive-interview-with-us-presidential-candidate"},"modified":"2019-12-11T02:59:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T10:59:50","slug":"exclusive-interview-with-us-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/exclusive-interview-with-us-presidential-candidate","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Interview with US presidential candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exclusive-interview-with-us-presidential-candidate2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, the transhumanist activist Zoltan Istvan <a href=\"https:\/\/zoltan2020.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced his candidacy<\/a> for President of the United States in next year\u2019s elections. The writer, humanitarian and outspoken advocate of radical science is no stranger to the issues surrounding Longevity, and has spoken widely on subjects including AI, genetic editing, technology policy, and futurism.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Istvan ran as an independent presidential candidate and travelled across the United States, spreading his message from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/jun\/16\/transhumanist-party-immortality-zoltan-istvan-presidential-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coffin-shaped bus<\/a>, known as the \u201cImmortality Bus.\u201d This time he\u2019s on the ballot, running against Donald Trump as a candidate for the Republican party in next year\u2019s primaries. Things are a bit more serious this time.<\/p>\n<p>Among his key policies, Istvan includes transhumanism, universal basic income and the need to beat China in the global innovation race \u2013 an issue we addressed in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longevity.technology\/hacking-longevity-exclusive-with-jamie-metzl\/\">Jamie Metzl<\/a> interview. We spoke to him to find out more about his views on the Longevity sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the transhumanist activist Zoltan Istvan announced his candidacy for President of the United States in next year\u2019s elections. The writer, humanitarian and outspoken advocate of radical science is no stranger to the issues surrounding Longevity, and has spoken widely on subjects including AI, genetic editing, technology policy, and futurism. In 2016, Istvan ran [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,412,5,269,31,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-genetics","category-geopolitics","category-life-extension","category-policy","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99584","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}