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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,…

November 2023

AI threatens to require society to redefine ‘what it means to be a person’ in the digital realm

by Henry Brady

“The outcome by 2040 depends a great deal, if not entirely, upon the regulatory framework created around AI. If we just consider the Internet, there have certainly been areas where…

November 2023

Blurred ‘truth’ and the erosion of trust are likely to deliver AI’s most significant impact

by Alexa Raad

“By 2040 AI will permeate everything. It is highly likely that it will have passed the Turing test well before 2040. Many aspects of daily life will be easier and…

November 2023

Thought is no longer generated from solo insights; it is the end product of a shared brain

by Barry Chudakov

“By 2040, adjunct intelligence will be everywhere, exercising a dramatic effect on each person’s identity and individual perception. AI’s collective powers and uber-reasoning are arriving as a silent encroaching on…

William Schrader
William Schrader
November 2023

Advances in artificial intelligence will add greater velocity to the vector of humanity’s troubles

by William Schrader

“AI – which is controlled by the wealthy and powerful – accelerates many threatening processes. And it is too late to stop it. “Think about the one-tenth of one percent…

Lorrayne Porciuncula
Lorrayne Porciuncula
November 2023

Agile governance must meet the dynamic challenges of future complex adaptive systems

by Lorrayne Porciuncula

“Managing and understanding the risks and nonlinearities of future advances will be a critical challenge from now and beyond. “Sophisticated models and agile governance mechanisms will be required to responsibly…

Toby Shulruff
Toby Shulruff
November 2023

The voices of the voiceless will continue to be underrepresented in AI systems

by Toby Shulruff

“The changes in daily life due to AI will likely be both profound and largely invisible by 2040. Profound, because the use of complex algorithms driven by massive computing power…

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