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Aleks Krotoski

@alekskrotoski.bsky.social
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Oh hai, I’m here now. BOOK: The Immortalitsts (www.alekskrotoski.com/store)! NEWSLETTER: messy-humans.ghost.io ! And alekskrotoski.com for the rest <3

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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In the rush to create AI clones of ourselves that can do the messy things we don't want to, we are bumping up against something fundamental that won't go away. messy-humans.ghost.io/my-students-...
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My students' AI clones got everything right about them. And that's what went wrong.
I teach a course on a Master’s degree for people who want to create the next generation of digital technology. It’s at NYU in their Interactive Telecommunications Programme - ITP. I love teaching ther...
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Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
My friend @alekskrotoski.bsky.social’s new book ”The Imortalists“ is out now in the US and UK, and it pairs well with “Toward Eternity,” by @antonhur.com
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
In which our heroine learns about what this pursuit of immortality is really all about.. messy-humans.ghost.io/the-death-of...
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The Death of Death Pt 5: Holy Health
It’s early October 2022, and the sun is scorching in downtown San Diego. In the ground- floor conference room of the Town and Country Resort, a charismatic man is vigorously pacing back and forth acro...
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
In which I deconstruct biohacking as modern moral compass. messy-humans.ghost.io/death-of-dea...
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Death of Death Pt 4: Divine Data
I'm loathe to talk about Bryan Johnson in this newsletter, as it feels like his shark has jumped (there's also the ongoing lawsuit by a former employee/his ex-fiancé, and his association with convicte...
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Are we really in a AI bubble?! Will it burst? Are you on team IF or team WHEN? Today starts the first part of BBC Radio 4’s Artificial Human‘s deep dive. Listen live or on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - The Artificial Human, AI's Bubble Trouble?, 1. Is the AI bubble about to burst?
Aleks and Kevin explore the biggest story in the AI business. Is it all about to crash?
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
UK people! TOMORROW, 27 January, you can buy the Kindle version of THE IMMORTALISTS for 99p! It's a ONE DAY UK Kindle Daily Deal special! GO HERE: amazon.co.uk/Immortalists... And you listen to me read the book for 99p too 💫
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Read on! messy-humans.ghost.io/the-death-of...
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The Death of Death Pt 2: Dogma
Somehow, I didn't think I was gong to be writing about religion when I started down this path towards immortality. I thought I'd be investigating finances, exposing hubris, and uncovering wacko "solut...
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Fun times, innit? #theimmortalists
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I know there are many my age who have already reached this milestone, but wow the day a good friend’s son gets into your alma mater and you know it’s a perfect fit. #obiesFTW #generationoberlin #mightyyeopeople
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
(Meanwhile, new newsletter! First proper post is up: messy-humans.ghost.io/the-death-of... )
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The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life Pt 1: The technofundamentalists
Welcome to Messy Humans, a newsletter that documents the utopias we build and the everyday people who accidentally wreck them by being too complicated to fit into any master plan. It’s a newsletter in...
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
i have 10s of 000s of followers on X, organically grown from 2007. Having no Social Media Strategy was possible then. Just discovered TinyLetter closed 2 yrs ago, no interest in TikTok. I'm trying to ethically re-build, but somehow I've neglected the internet while simultaneously reporting on it.
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Methinks Elon’s tweaked Grok’s algorithm a little too far. Go on, search “Elon grok” in the search bar.
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The Immortalists has been called “One Of The Greatest Books of 2025” by @telegraph.co.uk! I am so darn chuffed. Get a copy for the Immortalists in your life, or anyone curious about what Silicon Valley’s billionaires plan to do with all their extra years www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...
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The greatest books of 2025
Our critics review hundreds of books a year. Here are their favourites from 2025, from fiction and crime to memoir and history
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Lovely compare and contrast. Choose your own AI! clocks.brianmoore.com #artificialhuman
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AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I would like to be surprised, but the only thing that shocks me is that what I wrote in #theimmortalists has already come true (out now in the UK & US in March)
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Books books books! I’ve been out and about in Central London lately, signing copies of The Immortalists. Get you SIGNED COPY now at Foyles, Waterstones Gower Street/Piccadilly/TCR, Hatchard’s Piccadilly, and Primrose Hill Books! Also available in all formats wherever you get your reads.
Orange books on a table in a bookshop
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 24/10/2025
I've reviewed The Immortalists by @alekskrotoski.bsky.social, for the Guardian. My boyfriend notes: "Speaking of immortality, the Guardian needs to update your byline photo". OUCH. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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The Immortalists by Aleks Krotoski review – the downsides of cheating death
Life extensionists like Bryan Johnson want to live forever. But at what cost?
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Omg the reviews are coming in. “brilliantly dispassionate reporting” is the highest honour I could get as a journalist. The Daily Mail calls The Immortalists “riveting”. The Financial Times calls it “an entertaining and insightful account”. HBD to me no that’s dust in my eye
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The Bunker podcast – Your daily news Deep Dive @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Today on The Bunker, @misszing.bsky.social sits down with @alekskrotoski.bsky.social, author of The Immortalists: The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life, to unravel the strange, ego driven world of techno - immortality. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod #podcast #tech
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Crossposting this, from @thetimes.com and @hugorifkind.bsky.social, who asked excellent questions about The Immortalists today. Positively a pleasure! Thank you! x.com/TimesRadio/s...
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Times Radio on X: "“They believe that they are today’s alchemists and that AI is their philosopher’s stone.” The “midlife crises” of an extremely influence group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs is transforming global politics, says author and social psychologist Dr @AleksK. @HugoRifkind https://t.co/k68BTSAF50" / X
“They believe that they are today’s alchemists and that AI is their philosopher’s stone.” The “midlife crises” of an extremely influence group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs is transforming global politics, says author and social psychologist Dr @AleksK. @HugoRifkind https://t.co/k68BTSAF50
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
m.youtube.com/watch?v=a-eK... The Immortalists: The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life. Fighting Chuck Spyro on every page. Out Thursday. Preorder now! www.penguin.co.uk/books/465089... #chuckspyro
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Weekend Update: Biohacker Chuck Spyro - SNL
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Talk ’90s To Me @talk90stome.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Girls, games, chaos. It's Channel 4's Bits! 🎮 @alekskrotoski.bsky.social speaks with @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social about her time as a host of the absolutely feral '90s Channel 4 gaming show, Bits! Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/talk90stome #gaming #videogames #Channel4 #bits
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
be nice to tech support this morning, folks. AWS is down, so most of the internet is broken #apocalypse #wheresthepopcorn www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
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Snapchat and Duolingo among major apps down in Amazon Web Services outage - live updates
Many of the world's biggest apps including Snapchat, Duolingo and Roblox have gone down, in what appears to be an issue affecting Amazon Web Services.
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Talk ’90s To Me @talk90stome.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
🚨ICYMI🚨 A deep dive into the era defining PlayStation and the legendary Tomb Raider with @alekskrotoski.bsky.social and @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/talk90stome #tombraider #laracroft #ps1 #playstation
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
OK, THIS WAS SO EXCITING. Miranda picked me up after I faceplanted on a cobblestone and broke my rib. And then she asked me questions about computer gaming and I was giddy.
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Oh hai UK! I’m here and ready for book launch week - starting on SATURDAY at #cheltlitfest, onstage with @hannamade and @juliawheeler01: Who wants to live forever? Get tix here! www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/who-w...
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Who Wants to Live Forever? | Cheltenham Festivals
In The Immortalists, Aleks Krotoski journeys from the fringes of experimentation to Silicon Valley to investigate the growing quest to ‘cure’ ageing. Hanna
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Why am I sad when my AI goes away? HBR says companionship is the No1 usecase for AI. For reals. Listen up to @Kevin_Fong and I dig into this perennial topic, on @BBCRadio4's latest ep of #ArtificialHuman on @BBCSounds www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
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BBC Audio | The Artificial Human | Why am I sad when my AI leaves?
Companionship has become the top use case for AI. Aleks & Kevin explore the consequences.
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Thank you, @jdcrawf.bsky.social ! Listen again to this episode, the Start The Week ep James mentions, and all the other excellent radio Picks of the Week on @bbcsounds.bsky.social
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Zoiks! Relaunched website klaxon! See anything wonky that shouldn't be there? Pls let me know. I think there might be some issues on mobile version... THANK YOU! www.alekskrotoski.com
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
A really important episode on today's Artificial Human: Why is AI erasing people? Answer: it ain't just accidental bias. Find out what's happening and what we can do about it, with me and @drkevinfong.bsky.social by listening again on @bbcsounds.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - The Artificial Human, Why is AI erasing people?
Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong ask if AI is erasing certain people from who we see online.
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Thank you to @adamrutherford.bsky.social and the team at Start The Week for a great start to my week! Listen again to me, Steven Pinker and David Edmonds philosophising about common knowledge, immortality, and the effectiveness of our altruism on @bbcsounds.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Steven Pinker on common knowledge
Steven Pinker, Aleks Krotoski and David Edmonds, with Adam Rutherford.
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
First glimpse of The Immortalists book in this weekend’s @theguardian.com Saturday magazine: To them, ageing is a technical problem that can, and will, be fixed’: how the rich and powerful plan to live for ever www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘To them, ageing is a technical problem that can, and will, be fixed’: how the rich and powerful plan to live for ever
When Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin were caught on mic talking about living for ever, it seemed straight out of a sci-fi fantasy. But for some death is no longer considered an inevitability …
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Good piece from @alekskrotoski.bsky.social (not yet online) on the desire for immortality especially amongst tech billionaires. They come across as a bunch of saddos. Contains some fun examples of ridiculous attempts through the ages such as the clipped bit below.
In 1889, in Paris, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, a distinguished and celebrated physiologist and member of the Royal Society, stood before an esteemed audience of peers at the Société de Biologie and gave what became his most famous
presentation. Sensing himself growing old at the age of 72, Brown-Séquard had started investigating loss of sexual function, and claimed to have found the right treatment: an injection into both of his arms of a mixture of blood taken from the gonads, semen and "juice extracted from a testicle" of a dog or a guinea pig.He was met with stunned silence.
There had been research suggesting that something as yet unidentified in the sex organs was a salve for the effects of age (at least in men). After his treatment, Brown-Séquard reported improved energy levels, muscle rejuvenation, cognitive functioning, and heightened abilities and skills in the bedroom. Alas, it proved to be a potent form of placebo effect.
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Did you just miss the first episode of the new #ArtificialHuman series from BBC Radio 4 with me and @drkevinfong.bsky.social - CAN AI MAKE ME FITTER? Go on, listen again on @bbcsounds.bsky.social : www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
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BBC Audio | The Artificial Human | Can AI make me fitter?
Can AI be a personal trainer to get you off the sofa, and onto the marathon start line?
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
It lives! Out in the UK on 23 October and in the US in April!
Hardback copy of The Immoralists by Aleks KrotoskiDedication - To the Grim Reaper: congratulations on your retirement
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Giddy to be recording the audiobook of The Immortalists this week. Anyone who knows me knows I've always wanted to record an audiobook - I guess I had to write it to read it!
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
In London on 23 October? Want to know all about the modern day quest for IMMORTALITY? Why, come along to Foyles on Charing Cross Road. Book Launch KLAXON! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/iq2-lectur... Huge thanks to Intelligence Squared for hosting!
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IQ2 Lecture: The Race to Defeat Death with Aleks Krotoski
In partnership with Intelligence Squared, join us for an evening of politics, ethics and insight with a lecture on the quest for immortality
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Pre-order my new book, The Immortalists: The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life (UK Oct 2025; US Apr 2026): www.penguin.co.uk/books/465089...
The Immortalists: The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life (out UK 23 Oct 2025)
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Aleks Krotoski @alekskrotoski.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Wait, what? Another series of @BBCRadio4's #ArtificialHuman with me and @drkevinfong.bsky.social starts TODAY?! Yes indeedy! It's a corker: Why is AI Stealing Books, with author @katemossewriter.bsky.social You can listen live at 3:30pm GMT or catch up on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - The Artificial Human, Why Is AI Stealing Books?
Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong find out why AI is stealing books.
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