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Henning Schulzrinne
Henning Schulzrinne
May 2025

Smartphones Already Diminished Humans’ Navigation and Social Skills; When AI-Driven Systems Serve As Our Primary Source of Knowledge ‘We Won’t Know What We No Longer Know’

by Henning Schulzrinne

“Core human traits include the ability to learn and master new skills, the desire to be seen as useful to a larger community, a need for a sense of agency…

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 Alexa Raad

“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,…

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…

John M. Smart
John M. Smart
May 2025

Beyond 2035, Truly Self-Improving AI Will Be a New Form of Life With Its Own Agency That Connects to and Ethically Aligns With Humans’ Sentience, Promoting Our Values and Virtues

by John Smart

“There is a book I recommend everyone interested in the human-AI future read. Max Bennett’s, ‘A Brief History of Intelligence,’ 2023, supports a claim I’ve long held – the only…

Gary Bolles
Gary Bolles
April 2025

AI Presents an Opportunity to Liberate Humanity but New Norms in Human-Machine Communication Seem More Likely to Diminish Human-to-Human Connections

by Gary Bolles

“Due to the wide range of products in use in 2025, we already have extensive experience with the effects of technology on our individual and collective humanity. Each of us…

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…

April 2025

The Future Could Be Astonishing and Inspiring If Humans Co-Evolve With Open, Ethical AI. But That Vision for 2035 Can’t Be Achieved Without Change

by Alexandra Samuel

“If humans embrace AI as a source of change and challenge and we open ourselves to fundamental questions about the nature of thinking and the boundary between human and machine,…

David_Weinberger
David_Weinberger
April 2025

AIs Can Help Humans Really See the World, Teach Us About Ourselves, Help Us Discover New Truths and – Ideally – Inspire Us to Explore in New Ways

by David Weinberger

“I choose to spell out a positive vision about the possible impact of AI on humans because there is already a lot of negative commentary – much of which I…

November 2023

AI advances will bring the metaverse up to speed and accelerate 5G/6G and smart cities

by Victoria Baines

“It’s tempting to consider the future of AI as vertical, but technologies do not develop in vacuums. They enable, accelerate and even frustrate each other. “For instance, further developments in…

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