AI Presents an Opportunity to Liberate Humanity but New Norms in Human-Machine Communication Seem More Likely to Diminish Human-to-Human Connections
“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…
‘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’
“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…
The Blurring of Societal and Cultural Boundaries Is Shifting the Essence of Being Human in Many Ways, Further Disrupting Human Relationships and Mental Health
“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…
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
“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…
Blurred ‘truth’ and the erosion of trust are likely to deliver AI’s most significant impact
“By 2040 AI will permeate everything. It is highly likely that it will have passed the Turing test well before 2040. Many aspects of daily life will be easier and…