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    • Imagining the Digital Future Report: The Impact of AI by 2040
Walid Al-Saqaf
Walid Al-Saqaf
November 2023

AI’s success will require maintaining a delicate balance between its vast potential and the challenges it introduces

by Walid Al-Saqaf

“By 2040 the ubiquity of AI will have reshaped numerous facets of our daily lives. Advanced personal AI assistants will likely be part of our routines, offering predictions and automations…

Devin Fidler
Devin Fidler
November 2023

If we design our institutional ‘operating systems’ correctly we can realize a future of unprecedented progress and well-being

by Devin Fidler

“The AI discourse has been too fixated on a possible impending doomsday due to AI that could spiral out of control. The pressing, tangible challenges just at the threshold of…

November 2023

Synthetic agents (‘synthetes’) will be mass produced and create a ‘privacy nightmare’

by Michael G. Dyer

“There will be many more deepfakes and more AI-generated misinformation in politics, which will make it more difficult to distinguish AI falsehoods from human-authored information. Minimally, laws are needed that…

Jonathan Grudin
Jonathan Grudin
November 2023

Will AI amplify or reverse trajectories we are now riding?

by Jonathan Grudin

“If we avoid succumbing to an existential crisis, by 2040 AI will have changed life for those who can afford expensive health care and surgical procedures, homes and vehicles constructed…

November 2023

Maybe we should substitute the word ’Enter’ on our keyboards with ’Please,’ just in case…

by Maja Vujovic

“We’ve only had a couple of years in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to come to terms with what AI can do for us (or to us). In the…

Lee Warren McKnight
Lee Warren McKnight
November 2023

‘A new priesthood or profession’ of certified ethical AI developers will emerge

by Lee Warren McKnight

“The existential battle over the next 15 years will not be humans versus AI (as Hollywood and misinforming billionaire oligarchs portray, the better to keep us entertained and unconcerned about…

Pamela Wisniewski
Pamela Wisniewski
November 2023

‘We need to allow room for human discretion and struggle,’ important parts of being human

by Pamela Wisniewski

“My biggest concern at the moment is that we are trying to rein in AI before clearly defining its boundaries. “In the spring of 2023 the White House put out…

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