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Chris Arkenberg
Chris Arkenberg
May 2025

Competition, Individualism and Goal-seeking Behaviors Will Be Amplified By AI, for Good and Ill; Uniquely Human Cognitive and Emotional Features Will See the Greatest Evolution

by Chris Arkenberg

“Recent developments in generative AI show models that are increasingly capable of learning and reasoning without human feedback. They are discovering unique solutions to problems that have eluded humans, training…

John M. Smart
John M. Smart
May 2025

Beyond 2035, Truly Self-Improving AI Will Be a New Form of Life With Its Own Agency That Connects to and Ethically Aligns With Humans’ Sentience, Promoting Our Values and Virtues

by John Smart

“There is a book I recommend everyone interested in the human-AI future read. Max Bennett’s, ‘A Brief History of Intelligence,’ 2023, supports a claim I’ve long held – the only…

David Vivancos
David Vivancos
May 2025

AGI is Likely to Reshape How Humans Experience Self-Expression, Identity and Worth. We Will Also Have to Choose Between Retaining a ‘Classic’ Intellect or Being Enhanced with Tech

by David Vivancos

“Predicting the future is challenging but building it is even more. That’s my job, and it is difficult since the technological growth and trends expected in the next decade are…

April 2025

We Must Train People to be Self-Aware, to Understand Their Own Motivations and to Understand that AIs’ Goals Are Those of the Organizations and Systems That Control Them

by Esther Dyson

“The short answer is: The future depends on us. The slightly longer answer: The future depends on how we use AI and how well we equip the next generation to…

May 2025

The Expression of the Characteristics that Define Human Experience May Evolve – Creativity, Empathy, Critical Thinking and Our Capacity for Deep Personal Connections Will Remain

“By 2035, AI will be an ambient presence that anticipates needs, curates information and entertainment and takes on cumbersome-but-routine tasks. This profound shift will redefine how we view ourselves, feel,…

Henning Schulzrinne
Henning Schulzrinne
May 2025

Smartphones Already Diminished Humans’ Navigation and Social Skills; When AI-Driven Systems Serve As Our Primary Source of Knowledge ‘We Won’t Know What We No Longer Know’

by Henning Schulzrinne

“Core human traits include the ability to learn and master new skills, the desire to be seen as useful to a larger community, a need for a sense of agency…

Marcus van der Erve
Marcus van der Erve
May 2025

This is a Future-Defining Time in the Evolutionary Trajectory of Intelligence; It Could Lead to an Age of Abundance and the Rise of ‘HomAI’ Sapiens or Put Us On the Path to Obsolescence

by Marcus van der Erve

“I’ll list six primary points in predicting how digitally connected people are likely to live and act in 2035: 1. “Humans will rely more and more on AI to improve…

Maja Vujovic
Maja Vujovic
May 2025

In 10 Years’ Time Generations Alpha and Beta Will Make Up 40% of Humanity. Let’s Hope They Don’t Lose Any Mission-Critical Human Characteristics; We’ll All Need Them

by Maja Vujovic

“Throughout history, the humans have been mining three classes of resources from Mother Nature‚ two living and one inanimate: plants, animals and materials for tools. We give names to animals…

Juan Ortiz Freuler
Juan Ortiz Freuler
May 2025

The Accelerating Application of Automation Will Reshape Human Capabilities and Reorganize the Entire Framework That Underlies Our Understanding of the Individual and Society

by Juan Ortiz Freuler

“In the socio-political and economic landscape of 2035, the accelerating application of automation will not merely reshape human capabilities, it will reorganize the framework upon which our understanding of the…

Rosalie R. Day
Rosalie R. Day
May 2025

Can Our Innate Curiosity Save Us From an AI-Reliant Post-Truth Dystopia? Or Will AI Agents Facilitate and Amplify Our Weaknesses and Downgrade Knowledge Resources?

by Rosalie R. Day

“Human propensities combined with AI as it is on course to develop over the next 10 years in the U.S. could result in longer but less-fulfilling lives. If we follow…

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