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    • Imagining the Digital Future Report: The Impact of AI by 2040
November 2023

AI systems are being taught to ‘master the game of humans’

by Louis Rosenberg

“I’d like to explain the concept of sentient AI and the ‘arrival-mind paradox.’ As I look to the year 2040, I believe AI systems will likely become super-intelligent and sentient….

November 2023

Focus on the long-term welfare of people and society: Ask not what AI can do but what WE can ask it to do

by Esther Dyson

“The question of the future of humans and AI seems impossible to answer because of unexplainable humans, not because of unexplainable AI. So much depends on our use and control of…

November 2023

Augmented intelligence can inspire humanity to significantly upgrade everything

by Jerome Glenn

“Ideally, in 2040 the transition to the self-actualization economy will have begun. We will have come a long way since the 2020s. For the first time in history, humanity will…

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

The boundary between the organic and artificial, the sentient and insentient will erode

by Chen Qiufan

“The distant yet rapidly approaching horizon of 2040 beckons, a tableau yet to be etched but keenly imagined amidst the swirl of present-day aspirations and trepidations. The narrative of artificial…

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…

November 2023

2040 could see a graceful handoff to a nearly mythical world run by AI … or not

by Eric Saund

“Through 2040, AI will be an amplifier of human capabilities, directed toward various cooperative and competitive endeavors against a backdrop of conflicting values and resource constraints. For the next two…

November 2023

Our dilemma: ‘We won’t know what problems are salient until it may be too late’

by Chuck Cosson

“By 2040, the implementation of AI tools (along with related innovations and likely policy changes/self-regulatory efforts) will change life in material ways, sometimes for good but sometimes not. And, as…

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…

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