Animal domestication is really wild.
So we first select for neoteny (playfulness, dependency on caregiver, physical features people like) basically prolonging the juvenile state. Then we put them in controlled environments of abundance, were all their needs are met. Which further diminishes need to reach adult state (with traits like aggressiveness to compete for resources). This abundance causes them to mature/breed earlier and reproduce more than in the wild. Basically a population of children that can produce children. Then we want this population of children to live longer.
How many of you glance at this website and think "fraud engine"? This is a fantastic vehicle to suck money out of people that love their pets, and love animals in general. I know nothing about these people, but my fraud alarms are screaming.
There is also <a href="https://loyal.com" rel="nofollow">https://loyal.com</a> - Biotech Startup for researching/ developing longevity drugs for dogs.
FYI limited to to US only - they refer you to their sister project: <a href="https://darwinsark.org/" rel="nofollow">https://darwinsark.org/</a> if you'd still like to contribute in a similar fashion but reside outside of USA.
Unlike futurists I have little hope of our medical system producing radical improvements to human lifespan in my lifetime. Even ASI can't cure aging if it is not allowed to do experiments or if powerful lobbies prevent it from accessing medical data or "displacing" human medical staff.<p>If we want to get breakthroughs in lifespan extension quickly, they will have to come initially from something like this where vested interests are less strong and regulations less stifling. Not that I think this particular effort is going to do it, but something like it is the only way it could happen.
That AI dog image on the homepage is dreadful. Look at the inconsistency in the depth of field. And the inconsistency of the depth of the physical field the dog is sitting in, left vs right.
Obviously most people disagree, but I don't think we should search for medical advances that make life significantly longer. We should search for ideas that make the finite life on this planet significantly better. A longer life is dangerous. If people could live 150 or 200 years that will make the problems on this planet much worse since the desire to accumulate wealth over that time would be insane.