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    • Imagining the Digital Future Report: The Impact of AI by 2040
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 Alexa Raad

“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…

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…

Dave_Edwards
Dave_Edwards
April 2025

We Can Be Transformed If the Integration of Synthetic and Organic Intelligence Serves Human Flourishing in All its Unpredictable, Creative and Collective Forms

by Dave Edwards

“By 2035, the essential nature of human experience will be transformed not through the transcendence of our biology, but through an unprecedented integration with synthetic systems that participate in creating…

Noshir Contractor
Noshir Contractor
April 2025

AI Will Fundamentally Reshape How and What We Think, Relate to and Understand Ourselves; It Will Also Raise Important Questions About Human Agency and Authenticity

by Noshir Contractor

“As someone deeply immersed in studying how digital technologies shape human networks and behavior, I envision AI’s impact on human experience by 2035 as transformative but not deterministic. The partnership…

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