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
“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…
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
“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…
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,…
We Can Be Transformed If the Integration of Synthetic and Organic Intelligence Serves Human Flourishing in All its Unpredictable, Creative and Collective Forms
“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…
The Future Could Be Astonishing and Inspiring If Humans Co-Evolve With Open, Ethical AI. But That Vision for 2035 Can’t Be Achieved Without Change
“If humans embrace AI as a source of change and challenge and we open ourselves to fundamental questions about the nature of thinking and the boundary between human and machine,…
By 2035, ‘Authenticity is De Facto Dead’: Change Could Lead to Multiplicity of the Self, One-Way Relationships and Isolation Through Personalized ‘Realities’
“In my work as a professional futurist, I have developed a number of futures scenarios and emerging-future personas. The following list highlights some of the specific trends that I see…
Climate change, housing/refugee and economic inequity crises will play a huge role in 2040
“While AI is exploding now, it is not happening in isolation. Other factors are having a powerful impact on individuals and social systems, namely: “Some would set AI advancements and…
People may not even notice the losses they are suffering as the world is infused with AI
“By 2040 it will be increasingly difficult to know whether something that we see or experience has been human-generated. And it may matter less and less to us, as successive…
It may take an existential threat to knock us off the pedestal of narrow critical thinking on AI
“The best consequence of AI – which has existed in the scientific disciplines for many years but has now migrated to the humanities fields and the general consumer space –…
The influence of AI between now and 2040 will be crosscutting and wide-ranging
“By 2040, I expect that we will experience major changes in our daily lives, both visible and invisible, resulting from AI. These changes are likely to be crosscutting, affecting healthcare,…