Peter Diamandis is an American entrepreneur, engineer and physician by training, best known as the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation and co-founder of Singularity University. He studied at MIT and earned his medical degree at Harvard, has started more than 20 companies in space, longevity, venture capital and education, and co-wrote the bestsellers Abundance and Bold with Steven Kotler.
Brian Rose has interviewed Diamandis twice on London Real, in 2023 and 2025. They have talked about exponential technology, the phases of artificial intelligence, jobs and universal basic income, humanoid robots, the mindsets he teaches entrepreneurs, longevity and the $101 million XPRIZE Healthspan.
Both interviews are listed below in order with a short summary.
The Trillion Dollar Race to End Aging: AI, Healthspan & Human Upgrades (June 2025). His most recent interview, and the best introduction to his work on longevity and the XPRIZE Healthspan. For his broader view of AI and business, watch A.I. Will Disrupt Everything, 10X Growth & Create Massive Wealth (2023).
Speaking in 2023, Diamandis said the world would see more progress in the decade ahead than in the whole of the past century, driven by cheaper computing, more capital and billions of newly connected people.
He describes today’s AI as broadly helpful, the next one to ten years as disruptive, with deepfakes, job losses and AI-enabled hacking, and the phase after that as superintelligence. He believes a more intelligent AI is likely to be more pro-life and pro-abundance.
In 2025 he told Brian Rose he is less worried about artificial intelligence than about human stupidity. He sees malevolent people using AI as the main near-term risk, and AI itself as the best tool for catching them.
Diamandis argues that the gap between lifespan and healthspan, which he puts at about 16 years in the US, can be narrowed. He describes longevity escape velocity as the point where science adds more than a year of life for every year you live, and believes AI is bringing it closer.
He teaches five mindsets: purpose-driven, abundance, exponential, moonshot and longevity. He says a massive transformative purpose works as a filter for which opportunities to pursue, and that the entrepreneur is the job most likely to last in an age of AI.
Peter Diamandis is an American entrepreneur, engineer and physician by training. He founded the XPRIZE Foundation, co-founded Singularity University with Ray Kurzweil in 2008, and has co-written books including Abundance, Bold and The Future Is Faster Than You Think with Steven Kotler.
Across two interviews with Brian Rose, in 2023 and 2025, he talked about exponential technology, the phases of AI, jobs and universal basic income, humanoid robots, the mindsets he teaches, longevity and the XPRIZE Healthspan.
Start with The Trillion Dollar Race to End Aging from June 2025 for his views on longevity and AI today. Then watch the 2023 interview on AI and exponential organisations.
Twice: in July 2023 and June 2025.
The XPRIZE Foundation, which Diamandis founded in the 1990s, runs large prize competitions to encourage breakthroughs. Its first, the 10 million dollar Ansari XPRIZE for private spaceflight, was won in 2004 by SpaceShipOne.
The XPRIZE Healthspan is a 101 million dollar competition that asks teams to restore cognitive, immune and muscle function in older people by at least 10 years with a therapy lasting no more than a year. Diamandis explained it in his 2025 London Real interview.
It is the point Diamandis describes where, for every year you live, science extends your life by more than a year. He believes AI is bringing that point closer and says the task for individuals now is to stay as healthy as possible.
His books include Abundance, Bold and The Future Is Faster Than You Think, all with Steven Kotler, Life Force with Tony Robbins, Exponential Organizations 2.0 with Salim Ismail and Michael S. Malone, and Longevity Guidebook.
Official site: diamandis.com
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