“The modified industrial-age society will alter much by 2040. AI will subsume employment while creating major additional wealth and providing people with a guaranteed annual income. Many humans will have to decide what they would like to do instead of being employed in a traditional job, an individual decision. Finding a vocation, entertainment or some other meaningful place for themselves in the metaverse is one possibility.
“We humans have been far too successful; we are working ourselves out of a job by inventing other intelligent species in the realm of AI and AGI. We have also been decimating the ecosystem and seem to be developing ourselves out of a planet. The result of all this will be stormy, very trying.
AI and AGI will lead to widespread and highly impactful technological change across all aspects of human activity. This will result in an ongoing evolutionary transformation of humans themselves, possibly toward becoming cyborgs as we merge with machines.
“The human brain’s amygdala is wired to ensure that we abhor change, and the amount of change due to AI/AGI will be massive in coming years. There will be a continued rapid advancement of the virtual age and tele-everything.
“AI and AGI will lead to widespread and highly impactful technological change across all aspects of human activity. This will result in an ongoing evolutionary transformation of humans themselves, possibly toward becoming cyborgs as we merge with machines.
“There will be major increases in human life span and a Global Mind that all will utilize will emerge out of human technological development.”
This was written in November 2023 in reply to the question: Considering likely changes due to the proliferation of AI in individuals’ lives and in social, economic and political systems, how will life have changed by 2040? This and more than 150 additional responses are included in the report “The Impact of Artificial Intelligence by 2040”