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David Vivancos
David Vivancos
May 2025

AGI is Likely to Reshape How Humans Experience Self-Expression, Identity and Worth. We Will Also Have to Choose Between Retaining a ‘Classic’ Intellect or Being Enhanced with Tech

by David Vivancos

“Predicting the future is challenging but building it is even more. That’s my job, and it is difficult since the technological growth and trends expected in the next decade are…

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 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,…

Marcus van der Erve
Marcus van der Erve
May 2025

This is a Future-Defining Time in the Evolutionary Trajectory of Intelligence; It Could Lead to an Age of Abundance and the Rise of ‘HomAI’ Sapiens or Put Us On the Path to Obsolescence

by Marcus van der Erve

“I’ll list six primary points in predicting how digitally connected people are likely to live and act in 2035: 1. “Humans will rely more and more on AI to improve…

Evelyne Tauchnitz
Evelyne Tauchnitz
April 2025

We May Lose Our Human Unpredictability in a World in Which Algorithms Dictate the Terms of Engagement; These Systems Are Likely to Lead to the Erosion of Freedom and Authenticity

by Evelyne Tauchnitz

“Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) tied to brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and sophisticated surveillance technologies, among other applications, will deeply shape the social, political and economic spheres of life by 2035,…

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…

Dave_Edwards
Dave_Edwards
April 2025

We Can Be Transformed If the Integration of Synthetic and Organic Intelligence Serves Human Flourishing in All its Unpredictable, Creative and Collective Forms

by Dave Edwards

“By 2035, the essential nature of human experience will be transformed not through the transcendence of our biology, but through an unprecedented integration with synthetic systems that participate in creating…

Lior Zalmanson
Lior Zalmanson
April 2025

Humans Must Design Organizational and Social Structures to Maintain the Capacity to Shape Their Individual and Collective Future or Cede Unprecedented Control to Those in Power

by Lior Zalmanson

“The deepening partnership between humans and artificial intelligence through 2035 reveals a subtle but profound paradox of control. As we embrace AI agents and assistants that promise to enhance our…

Maggie Jackson
Maggie Jackson
April 2025

AIs’ Founders Are Designing AI to Make its Actions Servant to its Aims With As Little Human Interference as Possible, Undermining Human Discernment

by Maggie Jackson

“Human achievements depend on cognitive capabilities that are threatened by humanity’s rising dependence on technology, and more recently, AI. Studies show that active curiosity is born of a capacity to…

Noshir Contractor
Noshir Contractor
April 2025

AI Will Fundamentally Reshape How and What We Think, Relate to and Understand Ourselves; It Will Also Raise Important Questions About Human Agency and Authenticity

by Noshir Contractor

“As someone deeply immersed in studying how digital technologies shape human networks and behavior, I envision AI’s impact on human experience by 2035 as transformative but not deterministic. The partnership…

Jonathan Grudin
Jonathan Grudin
November 2023

Will AI amplify or reverse trajectories we are now riding?

by Jonathan Grudin

“If we avoid succumbing to an existential crisis, by 2040 AI will have changed life for those who can afford expensive health care and surgical procedures, homes and vehicles constructed…

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