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    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Imagining the Digital Future Report: The Impact of AI by 2040
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

Such good friends? Digital agents are likely to turn users into unknowing ‘agents of the machine’ 

by Judith Donath

“In computer-human interface design, the word ‘agent’ refers to chatbots and other seemingly autonomous entities that act on behalf of the computer in their interactions with us human users. It…

November 2023

Will our future resemble the fearful outcome in the E.M. Forster essay ‘The Machine Stops’?

by Michael Wollowski

“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…

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