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Walid Al-Saqaf
Walid Al-Saqaf
November 2023

AI’s success will require maintaining a delicate balance between its vast potential and the challenges it introduces

by Walid Al-Saqaf

“By 2040 the ubiquity of AI will have reshaped numerous facets of our daily lives. Advanced personal AI assistants will likely be part of our routines, offering predictions and automations…

William Schrader
William Schrader
November 2023

Advances in artificial intelligence will add greater velocity to the vector of humanity’s troubles

by William Schrader

“AI – which is controlled by the wealthy and powerful – accelerates many threatening processes. And it is too late to stop it. “Think about the one-tenth of one percent…

Lorrayne Porciuncula
Lorrayne Porciuncula
November 2023

Agile governance must meet the dynamic challenges of future complex adaptive systems

by Lorrayne Porciuncula

“Managing and understanding the risks and nonlinearities of future advances will be a critical challenge from now and beyond. “Sophisticated models and agile governance mechanisms will be required to responsibly…

November 2023

It may take an existential threat to knock us off the pedestal of narrow critical thinking on AI

by Stephen Abram

“The best consequence of AI – which has existed in the scientific disciplines for many years but has now migrated to the humanities fields and the general consumer space –…

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…

November 2023

‘It is imperative to start questioning AI and big data assumptions, values and biases’

by Katindi Sivi

“The power of AI to solve problems and transform life should not erase the need for vision or human insight. The more AI advances, the more I feel that people…

November 2023

The influence of AI between now and 2040 will be crosscutting and wide-ranging

by Daniel S. Schiff

“By 2040, I expect that we will experience major changes in our daily lives, both visible and invisible, resulting from AI. These changes are likely to be crosscutting, affecting healthcare,…

Terri Horton
Terri Horton
November 2023

Hyper-efficiency and productivity due to AI will accelerate innovation at scale by 2040

by Terri Horton

“In 2040, AI will usher in an era of enterprise hyper-efficiency and productivity that accelerates innovation at scale. The proliferation of AI will present a robust landscape of enhanced human…

Toby Shulruff
Toby Shulruff
November 2023

The voices of the voiceless will continue to be underrepresented in AI systems

by Toby Shulruff

“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…

Tim Bray
Tim Bray
November 2023

Capitalism limits the focus on AI’s long-term impact on people

by Tim Bray

“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…

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