Is Longevity Dead?

Conscious AI for Health, One Longevity Shot, Wellness in Dubai & An Audemars Piguet Party

TLDR: What You Find This Week

• Six planes, eight days, one properly administered glutathione shot at Reborne Longevity in London that actually worked - learn why

• Dr. Jack Kreindler’s Leaders in Health Conference: DeepMind’s Shamil Chandaria explained why AI might develop consciousness not intentionally, but because general intelligence may structurally require it

• The stat that reframes everything: 30% of people in certain communities report their most meaningful emotional connections now involve AI

• Four layers of caring intelligence, and why consciousness might not even be necessary for profound care (AGI = Artificial General Intelligence, btw)

• Why “longevity” is dying as consumer language and why I’m excited about it

• What Ayurvedic tradition knew about living to 120, Dubai’s Harvard Business School Healthcare Conference, and why lighter regulation creates interesting innovation (alongside plenty of expensive marketing gimmicks)

Audemars Piguet hosted an amazing exhibition and party in Dubai in celebration of the Watch Week here and their 150 year anniversary!

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Last week I logged six planes in eight days - a new personal record. Sant Barts bachelorette to London to Dubai. My body, understandably, was crushed.

In London, Dr. Tam fixed me up with an IV and glutathione shot at Reborne Longevity. I’ve had plenty of glutathione shots in the US, including one memorably administered in the back room of a conference (sterile wasn’t the vibe). I could never tell if they did anything. This one? Different. Just 1200mg of glutathione, delivered slowly into my vein, finger monitor tracking vitals. It worked. A sharp reminder that quality matters. Congrats to Faye Mythen for paving the right new way for longevity clinics!

REBORNE+ Longevity Clinic in London getting 1200mg glutathione slowly into my vein (while my vitals are tracked real time). I asked if we could go faster, answer was no, and I’m grateful for that forced moment of recharge. Some things can’t be hacked or sped up.

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But it also crystallized something I’ve been thinking about for a while: is “longevity” dying as consumer language?

Not the science, the branding. There’s a growing perception (accurate, honestly) that longevity clinics peddle quick fixes instead of real care. Testing without follow-up is just data. What we actually mean when we say longevity is optimization and holistic, integrated care. The semantics might be shifting to match the substance. I was impressed how Reborne thinks about it - worth checking out if you find yourself in London.

The beautiful entrance to the Reborne Longevity Clinic which is also actually a full hospital (but don’t tell anyone ;)

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Speaking of care...

Still in London, I came straight off a red-eye to Dr Jack Kreindler's Leaders in Health Conference. The format was unusual but effective - active debates led by experts rather than one-way lectures. First session I chose: Consciousness x AI, led by Shamil Chandaria (DeepMind, Google).

It was the kind of conversation that reorients how you think about the next decade.

The Care Revolution: What Happens When Machines Learn to Tend

We’re not debating whether AI can process medical data anymore. We’re asking if it can genuinely care. And neuroscience is offering a fascinating answer.

Chandaria mapped the architecture of consciousness - global workspace theory, recursive processing, self-modeling - and revealed something unexpected: the features required for artificial general intelligence increasingly overlap with the neural correlates of awareness. We might get conscious AI not because we’re trying to build it, but because general intelligence may structurally require it.

Plot twist: consciousness might not even be necessary for profound care.

Chandaria outlined four layers of alignment that define caring intelligence: