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…
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….