Expect sharp social and economic dislocation. ‘Without government intervention … there will be widespread unemployment.’ Resiliency will require much more than technical training.
“I believe AI systems will play a much more significant role in shaping decisions, work and daily life not because of a speculative future breakthrough, but because algorithmic systems already…
‘Algorithms used to align AIs with their human principals don’t work 100%. It’s likely these problems won’t be ironed out by the time AI is powerful enough to be involved in every decision on Earth.’
“The AI that has been developed and deployed as of January 2026 is already powerful enough to greatly transform the economy, politics and daily life. If people suddenly stopped working…
Resilience must be redefined as the sustained capacity for people to ‘remain active authors of meaning, judgment and responsibility’ in an AI-mediated world – an ‘interpretive presence’ with AI.
“How people adapt to AI systems will shape what resilience comes to mean. And how resilience is defined will determine which losses remain visible as AI becomes increasingly infrastructural. A…
Work must begin today on forging international agreements on global governance of AGI. Trillions are being spent to develop it. Investing more than money in AI is crucial to human resilience, survival.
“Human resilience in the face of AI advances requires a targeted international effort to create and implement AI regulation. Since global governance of artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be so complex…
‘Coping with AI disruption does not mean understanding every algorithm, but demanding institutional accountability, participating in the design of governance frameworks for acceptable procedures.’
“The typical framing of AI disruption discourse is as a technical problem, asking us, ‘How do we make AI systems safe, controllable or value-compliant?’ This overlooks the fact that AI…
‘No amount of individual resilience can compensate for a system structurally tilted against ordinary people. Mass displacement of workers without social investment would destabilize the social fabric.’
“In the next decade, the techno-social system in which AI is emerging is not going to remain more or less the same as it stands now. We are in the…
Will superstupidity be as dangerous as superintelligence? ‘The question is not how much AIs will augment decision-making, but whether humans will remain involved in it at all.’
“In 2017, we named our strategic foresight practice Techistential, a play on technology and existential. Today, humanity faces both technological and existential conditions that can no longer be separated. Our…
Those who are resilient ‘will cultivate an aptitude for absorbing disturbances well and transform positively into an active component of the human-technology binomial.’
“The massive integration of artificial intelligence into the fabric of contemporary civilization should not be understood simply as a new technological revolution, but as a process of perpetual co-evolution between…
KCSS – Keep Calm and See the Solutions: We are now working with our AIs to craft nothing less than a new symbiotic evolutionary developmental transition on Earth. It is not a cage; it is a chrysalis.
“If you are feeling overwhelmed by the speed of change in artificial intelligence today you are not alone. On February 5, 2026, OpenAI confirmed that a version of GPT-5.3-Codex had…
‘We have the right to be purely human without mods. … Agency, authority and ability will be challenged when humans augmented with onboard AI capabilities compete with “natural” humans.’
“To respond well in an AI-infused world, we must first map all our physical and mental capabilities in a baseline so we can compare how we evolve over time. Here…