The World with AI in 2040
Hundreds of experts' view compressed
What will look like the world in 2040?
A New Age of Enlightenment? A New Threat to Humanity?
Experts Imagine the Impact of Artificial Intelligence by 2040:
💡 A new meaning of life: A “self-actualized economy” will arise, combining AI efficiencies and medical advancements to transform human connection and care.
🤖 Shifting boundaries between humans and machines: What’s controversial about AI will change year by year as applications become normalized.
🧠 Adjunct intelligence everywhere: AI systems will deeply influence identity, perception, and consciousness, creating a “Mind 2.0” world.
🧑🎤 Personal avatars with "self-sovereign identities": 3D, photo-realistic avatars will act on behalf of individuals using their comprehensive personal data.
🎙️ Digital assistants take over: AI will have more influence over people than their human counterparts, leading to vulnerability and digital manipulation.
❤️ Intimate relationships with bots: People may direct most of their affection and attention toward digital products, leading to anti-social consequences.
⏳ Time and space redefined: Transit flows, digital avatars, and holograms will reshape how people interact and move.
🌀 “Truths will be modified”: Deepfakes and disinformation will erode societies’ reference points, increasing polarization and cognitive dissonance.
⚖️ Responsible AI laws: Shared responsibility for AI errors and ethics will be mandated across creators, users, and even shareholders.
🌍 Shared benefits transform humanity: AI-driven equitable, sustainable societies will shift productivity metrics toward “human-flourishing.”
🚦 Social driver’s licenses for AI: Communities will set norms to assess and regulate AI’s competence in steering human behaviors.
📹 Authoritarian AI misuse: AI will enable extreme surveillance and control, shaping human actions in authoritarian regimes.
🌐 Multilingualism blossoms: Automated translation tools will create a more inclusive digital world, reducing the dominance of English.
🎨 Creativity democratized, but homogenized: Anyone can create, but AI may produce a monoculture of similar outputs.
👿 Bad AI by design: Some AI will ignore laws and ethics, raising questions about building “common sense” into secure systems.
🔄 An abundance mindset: AI combined with clean energy and asteroid mining could eliminate scarcity and redefine material success.
🕶️ The metaverse emerges: AI will make immersive, augmented-reality environments more accessible and widely adopted.
📱 Always-on lifestyle dominates: Social and work norms will demand constant connectivity and responsiveness.
🔍 Transparent corporations and governments: AI could empower citizens by exposing shady practices and enabling critical inquiry.
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