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    • Imagining the Digital Future Report: The Impact of AI by 2040
November 2023

AI systems are being taught to ‘master the game of humans’

by Louis Rosenberg

“I’d like to explain the concept of sentient AI and the ‘arrival-mind paradox.’ As I look to the year 2040, I believe AI systems will likely become super-intelligent and sentient….

November 2023

Given AI’s great potential, preventing it from turning into the sorcerer’s apprentice is the primary challenge

by Raymond Perrault

“I view this question as depending on what happens to current AI, meaning in practice, to current generative AI. For purposes of this exercise, let’s consider two possible outcomes for…

Avi Bar-Zeev
Avi Bar-Zeev
November 2023

AI is the most-persuasive technology ever, and the most dangerous in greedy human hands

by Avi Bar-Zeev

“AI is poised to be the most persuasive technology ever invented, which also makes it the most dangerous in greedy human hands. By 2040, we may decide to let AI…

November 2023

We aim to assure that AI supports human self-efficacy, creativity and connectedness

by Ben Shneiderman

Ben Shneiderman shared a set of insights originally written for readers of his “Notes on Human-Centered AI” column: “The U.S. White House published President Biden’s Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and…

November 2023

‘We may lose the exceptionalism of biological life’; AI could be granted human rights

by Wolfgang Slany

“We shall eventually see our artificial general intelligences as full members of humanity; probably sooner than later. The United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights will apply once AGIs are…

November 2023

Reinventing democracies’ infrastructures can cut the likelihood of dystopia by 85%

by Aviv Ovadya

“Our future depends upon what we choose to do and invest in. It is as if all of society is in vehicles navigating treacherous mountain passes with engines that are…

Micah Altman
Micah Altman
November 2023

The problems raised by AI cannot be solved simply by bolting guardrails onto existing systems

by Micah Altman

“Popular visions of created intelligence as a utopic or dystopic force date back more than two centuries. Today it is possible to envision that artificial machine intelligence could cause dramatic…

November 2023

AI requires new technology, social institutions and social conventions

by Sean McGregor

“We will not have all the answers to safely managing AI by 2040, but we will have a profession with millions of people dedicated to advancing the cause. “It is likely to be the…

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