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Charles Ess
Charles Ess
April 2025

‘We Fall in Love With the Technologies of Our Enslavement. … The Next Generation May Be One of No-Skilling in Regard to Essential Human Virtue Ethics’

by Charles Ess

“The human characteristics (such as empathy, moral judgment, decision-making and problem-solving skills, the capacity to learn) are virtues that are utterly central to human autonomy and flourishing. A ‘virtue’ is…

Jerry Michalski
Jerry Michalski
April 2025

The Blurring of Societal and Cultural Boundaries Is Shifting the Essence of Being Human in Many Ways, Further Disrupting Human Relationships and Mental Health

by Jerry Michalski

“Multiple boundaries are going to blur or melt over the next decade, shifting the experience of being human in disconcerting ways. Among them:  The boundary between reality and fiction: Deepfakes…

Danil_Mikhailov
Danil_Mikhailov
April 2025

Respect for Human Expertise and Authority Will Be Undermined, Trust Destroyed, and Utility Will Displace ‘Truth’ at a Time When Mass Unemployment Decimates Identity and Security

by Danil Mikhailov

“It seems clear from the vantage point of 2025 that AI will be not just a once-in-a-generation but a once-in-a-hundred years transformative technology, on a par with the introduction of…

Amy Zalman
Amy Zalman
April 2025

‘We Must Have the Courage to Establish Human Values in Code, Ethical Precepts, Policy and Regulation’

by Amy Zalman

“Because the current wealth and income gap is dramatic and widening, I do not believe it is possible to generalize a common human experience in response to AI advances in…

Giacomo Mazzone
Giacomo Mazzone
April 2025

Expect More Isolation and Polarization, a Loss of Cognitive Depth, and a Muddling of ‘Facts’ and ‘Truth’ That Undermines Trust and Our Capacity for Moral Judgment

by Giacomo Mazzone

“I see four main impacts of artificial intelligence on digitally connected people’s daily lives. In brief, they are the: loss of mental capacities; reduction of social interactions with other humans;…

November 2023

We can create a great future, but it will require new infrastructure, policies and norms

by Marina Gorbis

“How our individual lives and society will change with the diffusion of AI depends less on technological innovations and more on policies and institutional arrangements in which they develop. It…

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

There is likely to be an AI-driven war over people’s minds and emotions

by Stephan Adelson

“By 2040, for most of the population, AI’s daily influence will appear to be rather benign and quite useful, but the purveyors of AI will invest their efforts toward creating…

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

AI advances will bring the metaverse up to speed and accelerate 5G/6G and smart cities

by Victoria Baines

“It’s tempting to consider the future of AI as vertical, but technologies do not develop in vacuums. They enable, accelerate and even frustrate each other. “For instance, further developments in…

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