In 10 Years’ Time Generations Alpha and Beta Will Make Up 40% of Humanity. Let’s Hope They Don’t Lose Any Mission-Critical Human Characteristics; We’ll All Need Them
“Throughout history, the humans have been mining three classes of resources from Mother Nature‚ two living and one inanimate: plants, animals and materials for tools. We give names to animals…
Yes, AI Could Ultimately Complement, Not Compete, with Humanity, But We’re Headed for a Lot of Unpredictable and Sometimes Seemingly Unnoticeable Significant Human Change
“Two years ago, my prediction was that humans would use AI with a mixture of rapture and horror. While ‘horror’ may be an overstatement, ‘concern’ may be increasingly appropriate: A 2021…
Competition, Individualism and Goal-seeking Behaviors Will Be Amplified By AI, for Good and Ill; Uniquely Human Cognitive and Emotional Features Will See the Greatest Evolution
“Recent developments in generative AI show models that are increasingly capable of learning and reasoning without human feedback. They are discovering unique solutions to problems that have eluded humans, training…
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 May Lose Our Human Unpredictability in a World in Which Algorithms Dictate the Terms of Engagement; These Systems Are Likely to Lead to the Erosion of Freedom and Authenticity
“Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) tied to brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and sophisticated surveillance technologies, among other applications, will deeply shape the social, political and economic spheres of life by 2035,…
‘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…
We Can Be Transformed If the Integration of Synthetic and Organic Intelligence Serves Human Flourishing in All its Unpredictable, Creative and Collective Forms
“By 2035, the essential nature of human experience will be transformed not through the transcendence of our biology, but through an unprecedented integration with synthetic systems that participate in creating…
Humans Must Design Organizational and Social Structures to Maintain the Capacity to Shape Their Individual and Collective Future or Cede Unprecedented Control to Those in Power
“The deepening partnership between humans and artificial intelligence through 2035 reveals a subtle but profound paradox of control. As we embrace AI agents and assistants that promise to enhance our…
AIs’ Founders Are Designing AI to Make its Actions Servant to its Aims With As Little Human Interference as Possible, Undermining Human Discernment
“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…