Communal, civic and constitutional guidelines should be exercised over artificial intellgence
“By 2040, AI will extend into virtually every digitally-enabled technology we interact with; it will be woven into the very infrastructure that surrounds and supports us in the 21st century….
In the future, humans could possibly become cyborgs, merging with machines
“The modified industrial-age society will alter much by 2040. AI will subsume employment while creating major additional wealth and providing people with a guaranteed annual income. Many humans will have…
AI requires new technology, social institutions and social conventions
“We will not have all the answers to safely managing AI by 2040, but we will have a profession with millions of people dedicated to advancing the cause. “It is likely to be the…
Will our future resemble the fearful outcome in the E.M. Forster essay ‘The Machine Stops’?
“I am afraid that the negative impact that social media have on people’s ability to directly communicate with each other and on civility in general, will be amplified and accelerated…
It is unlikely that human institutions are ready or willing to properly adapt to this change
“I see no evidence that human institutions anywhere in the world are ready for the change that lies before us, nor do they show any significant capacity to address existential…
AIs’ talent for managing the transit of information, people and vehicles will reshape our lives
“Life will change markedly by 2040 due in part to the huge strides in the evolution of large language models that we are already seeing. “Education systems will necessarily be…
The voices of the voiceless will continue to be underrepresented in AI systems
“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…
By 2040, many people will live better but aggressive AI systems will proliferate as a human/AI symbiosis emerges
“Let me share six main ideas about what life could be like in 2040: This was written in November 2023 in reply to the question: Considering likely changes due to the…
Capitalism limits the focus on AI’s long-term impact on people
“The problem with AI has nothing to do with the technology itself. The problem is the people who are financing and deploying it; the imperatives of 21st-century capitalism ensure that…
We will be more self-absorbed, post-truth will worsen and our sense of purpose will be diminished
“Advances and proliferation of AI will allow us to be more self-absorbed than we are now. The post-truth era that the 2016 election ushered in will be backstopped by deepfakes….