Category: Bottom Lines
Must-read: “Purely intelligent creatures, whether people or machines, are bad for humanity” Sundar Sarukkai on AI
I just ran across this really powerful piece on AI, by Sundar Sarukkai, quoted below – really changed the way I think about AI. High-lights and images are mine. Here it is! The real worry about these technologies is the emphasis on intelligence rather than other characteristics of human beings. AI is ...
Some of my best slides from the past 6 weeks: technology, humanity and the future (a special FuturistGerd collection of visual memes)
All images are licensed under creative commons non-commercial attribution license (i.e. you can use all images if you provide proper credit to futurist Gerd Leonhard). You can also download these images via my Flickr Stream.
Anything that can be digitised or automated, will be – but anything that cannot will become extremely valuable (new gif)
Download the .mov file: anything digitized or not useless humans vs androrithms final Read more about Androrithms (that which cannot be digitised)
Things to Hang on Your Mental Mug Tree | Edge.org – some great morsels from Rory Sutherland
“There’s a rather lovely company in the UK that pays people who are housebound—whether for medical reasons, or are caregivers—to handwrite envelopes and letters. You could regard this as a very silly thing to do, but in costly signaling theory terms, it makes perfect sense. The open rate of these ...
Martin Seligman: We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment (why we are all futurists) via NYT
“What best distinguishes our species is an ability that scientists are just beginning to appreciate: We contemplate the future. Our singular foresight created civilization and sustains society. It usually lifts our spirits, but it’s also the source of most depression and anxiety, whether we’re evaluating our own lives or worrying ...
“Google, not GCHQ, is the truly chilling spy network” says John Naughton (The Guardian)
“one of the spooks with whom I discussed Snowden’s revelations waxed indignant about our coverage of the story. What bugged him (pardon the pun) was the unfairness of having state agencies pilloried, while firms such as Google and Facebook, which, in his opinion, conducted much more intensive surveillance than the ...
Five new human rights for the Digital Age (excerpt from Gerd Leonhard’s book Technology vs Humanity)
This is a slightly modified and hyper-linked excerpt from my new book ‘Technology vs Humanity’. Find out more about ‘Technology vs Humanity’, check out the reviews, read the cheat sheet, or buy the book on Amazon. (Page 140 in my book) Here are some core human rights that I humbly suggest might form part of what I ...
The most important bottom lines from Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s “Technology vs Humanity” book, in 5 minutes (video)
Here is a brand-new video my TFA Studio team and me recorded a few weeks ago, explaining the key memes set forth in my new book “Technology vs Humanity”, such as Androrithms, The Megashifts, Exponentiality, Artificial Intelligence and much more. Watch this short film if you’re interested in my book, or ...
Futurist Gerd Leonhard: Open letter to the Partnership on AI (take 2)
When machines have an IQ of 50,000, what happens to human values and ethics? By Gerd Leonhard Futurist , Author Technology vs Humanity The partnership on AI has just announced some new members and a board of trustees, and Apple has finally joined Facebook, Google / Deep Mind, IBM, Amazon and Microsoft. This development has ...
