AI is the best thing since sliced bread. We should embrace it wholeheartedly and understand the secrets of unlocking the human brain by embracing AI. We can’t do it by ourselves.
ENTREPRENEUR FOUNDER, KERNEL & OS FUND
Bryan Johnson is the founder of Kernel, OS Fund, and Braintree. After the sale of Braintree to PayPal in 2013 for $800m, Johnson founded OS Fund in 2014 with $100m of those funds. His objective was to invest in entrepreneurs and companies that develop breakthrough discoveries in hard science to address our most pressing global problems. In 2016, Johnson founded Kernel with another $100m of his funds. Kernel is building brain-machine interfaces with the intention of providing humans with the option to radically enhance their cognition.
MARTIN FORD: Could you explain what Kernel is? How did it get started, and what is the long-term vision?
BRYAN JOHNSON: Most people start companies with a product in mind, and they build that given product. I started...