

I have been posting my highlights from the fabulous Instapaper reading app to my Tumblr GerdFeed page for a long time, resulting in some 30.000+...

The Future of Work & Jobs, impacted by AI: Messy Jobs and The Good Enough Dilemma
Here are 2 videos on this topic, and 3 images based on this recent pierce by The Atlantic: Three Ways to Think About AI and...
12
Jun 2026

The 3 layers of the AI Transition. Intelligence Like Water?
Demis Hassabis just handed the future of civilization to the philosophers.Not more engineers. Not more compute. Not more code.A direct call to arms for the...
09
Jun 2026

We are a desire, not an algorithm: The synchronicity between Pope Leo’s Magnifica Humanitas (on AI) and my own #techvshuman writings and videos
My 10 year-old framework on the future of technology, digital ethics, androrithms and The Good Future of Humanity line up beautifully with Pope Leo XIV’s...
26
May 2026

AI’s Rise: A Urgent Call for New Economics.
Here is an important realisation I have recently arrived at: AI is taking over the Internet, there is no way to go back to what...
05
May 2026

Introducing my new Brand: Advocate for the Human Future. Public Thinker. Gerd.TV
Gerd Leonhard – For the Human FuturePublic thinker. Futurist. Advocate for The Good Future. Defender of #Androrithms. Keynote speaker, filmmaker, and Author of five books, including the...
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Apr 2026


Updated: ‘Terrifying warning sign’: Anthropic delays AI model MYTHOS public release over security concerns: CNN Video, and mine:)
This is a 5* must watch featuring Jacob Ward and Thomas Friedman (NYT). I have said this countless times in the past 3 years: we...
10
Apr 2026

OpenAI’s SuperIntelligence Memo: “Bernie Sanders’ Fever Dream” or Sam Altman’s Chilling DC Warning?
Made with GoogleNotebookLM and about 4 hours of research and prompting:)) “Washington is essentially staring down a tidal wave without a life jacket, according to...
07
Apr 2026

While super-intelligent machines are being developed, humans are at risk of becoming super-stupid – Is this by design?
AI is now essentially a "digital enclave" of millions of synthetic citizens, each smarter than any Nobel-prize winner, thinking 100 times faster than us -...
05
Apr 2026

AI Dilemmas: The inner life we are trading away in return for Productivity and Speed?
Read this first: Christof Koch This brilliant piece “The inner life we’re trading away” by Neuroscientist Christof Koch: Why reflective self-consciousness separates us from intelligent...
03
Apr 2026

The rise of Super-Stupidity, the End of Solitude and more: Impact of AI: Elon University 2026 Report
I contributed to this report. Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center just released its 52nd “Future of Digital Life” report, a document that functions...
03
Apr 2026

Too much technology: Bicycles for the mind… but Bullets for the Soul?
Democracy has suffered from “too much of a good thing i.e. technology”. We are facing a dilemma that I sometimes describe as “Bicycles for the...
30
Mar 2026

Announcing my new film: Look Up Now (the 2026 edition): AI and the Future of Humanity
Who is “Mission Control for Humanity” in the Age of AI? Visit the new microsite Humanity stands at the ultimate “fork in the road,” a...
22
Mar 2026

If AI can observe and predict the Future what’s the new role of Forecasters and Futurists? GerdsTake Video #2
Working in the forecasting, observations, futurism and keynoting field, I am witnessing a massive shift where the core of my work—prediction and observation—is becoming increasingly...
14
Mar 2026

How does Futurist Gerd Leonhard compare to Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis?
Many people have asked me this over the past decade, and so… I asked Claude:) Enjoy:) “Chese three represent genuinely different philosophical camps within futurism....
02
Mar 2026

The Future of Futurists: Most of prediction work becomes automated; great narratives become essential but also increasingly politicized
A reecent realization. Take note, fellow futurists. Forecasting used to be a human craft – Now, driven by AI, it’s becoming a utility. AI models...

