Joining us today is AI researcher Mark Woodward. Mark holds a Computer Science Masters from Stanford and a PhD from Harvard, has a decade of applied AI research and field experience, and has held a residency with Google Brain. Suffice to say, Mark is an AI expert who has worked on the bleeding edge of the field. In his next chapter, Mark has turned his attention to the field of cryonics.

Machine intelligence and AI is poised to become a super accelerant for scientific inquiry and innovation, unlocking seemingly impossible problems, and revealing complex ethical and societal issues. Up until this point, cryofreezing and preservation has felt like a Hollywood sci-fi fantasy, where astronauts are frozen for deep space travel in the distant future. In reality, cryogenic life preservation may be closer than we think, because we already understand roughly what is needed to make it work. In this episode of Welcome to the Machine, Mark walks us through why machine intelligence is so well positioned to help guide us through many of the most complex remaining scientific challenges, and what that means for the future of this technology.