New technology could put human life on hold until the future

SARAH HOOPER FROM METRO

A new facility could eventually allow humans to ‘pause’ their bodies until the future arrives.

TimeShift describes itself as the world’s first cryopreservation facility and is based on cutting-edge AI and new cryopreservation techniques.

If the idea comes to fruition, cryopreservation could allow cancer patients to ‘freeze’ themselves until medicine advances, or allow humans to ‘outlive’ the apocalypse – as seen in Futurama.

AI could also be utilised to help an ‘avatar’ of the frozen person’s likeness speak with their family and friends while their real body is frozen.

The facility has been proposed by Dr Alex Zhavoronkov, a generative AI scientist and anti-ageing researcher, and Hashem Al-Ghaili, a molecular biologist.