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Charles Ess
Charles Ess
April 2025

‘We Fall in Love With the Technologies of Our Enslavement. … The Next Generation May Be One of No-Skilling in Regard to Essential Human Virtue Ethics’

by Charles Ess

“The human characteristics (such as empathy, moral judgment, decision-making and problem-solving skills, the capacity to learn) are virtues that are utterly central to human autonomy and flourishing. A ‘virtue’ is…

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…

Giacomo Mazzone
Giacomo Mazzone
April 2025

Expect More Isolation and Polarization, a Loss of Cognitive Depth, and a Muddling of ‘Facts’ and ‘Truth’ That Undermines Trust and Our Capacity for Moral Judgment

by Giacomo Mazzone

“I see four main impacts of artificial intelligence on digitally connected people’s daily lives. In brief, they are the: loss of mental capacities; reduction of social interactions with other humans;…

November 2023

AI threatens to require society to redefine ‘what it means to be a person’ in the digital realm

by Henry Brady

“The outcome by 2040 depends a great deal, if not entirely, upon the regulatory framework created around AI. If we just consider the Internet, there have certainly been areas where…

November 2023

Thought is no longer generated from solo insights; it is the end product of a shared brain

by Barry Chudakov

“By 2040, adjunct intelligence will be everywhere, exercising a dramatic effect on each person’s identity and individual perception. AI’s collective powers and uber-reasoning are arriving as a silent encroaching on…

November 2023

Climate change, housing/refugee and economic inequity crises will play a huge role in 2040

by Christine Boese

“While AI is exploding now, it is not happening in isolation. Other factors are having a powerful impact on individuals and social systems, namely: “Some would set AI advancements and…

November 2023

Economic, employment and education systems must be massively restructured

by Sam Lehman-Wilzig

“AI will render almost all aspects of personal life much easier/smoother. However, advanced AI constitutes a direct threat to employment. True, past economic eras of technological advancement have not caused…

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…

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…

Charalambos Tsekeris
Charalambos Tsekeris
November 2023

Don’t underestimate the dangers of unintended consequences embraced out of ignorance

by Charalambos Tsekeris

“In the next 15 or so years, AI (not AGI) will arguably complement humans by improving the productivity of workers of every kind and by creating new, augmented tasks and…

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