The document discusses the rapid changes in technology and its impact on humanity, emphasizing the need to focus on human flourishing rather than just technological progress. It highlights the potential dangers of relying too heavily on artificial intelligence and algorithms, particularly in areas like social media where profit can overshadow human concerns. The author argues for a balanced approach that invests equally in technology and humanity to ensure a positive future.

1. Technology, Humanity,
AI and The Future

2. So what does a Futurist do?

3. Our world will change more in the next 20 years than in the previous 300 years
It could be heaven or it could be hell

6. The future is better than we think … IF…

7. …we don’t confuse the tool with the purpose

8. Becoming super-human: be careful what you wish for!

9. 1 2 4 8 16 32 64128
Linear thinking
Wait and see
Just do it

10. Technology is exponential, but humans are not. What matters most to us is not ‘technology’!

11. Humanity ☯ Technology

12. AndrorithmsAlgorithms

13. Humans ≠ Machines*

14. Machines ≠ Human

15. Anything that can be digitized or automated, will be: the end of routine is near!The end of routine is NOT the end of work, nor of purpose!

16. Machines don’t
do relationships
*but they are becoming exceedingly good at faking them

17. Data and Information
is not Knowledge*
is not Understanding
is not Wisdom
Machines don’t understand 95% of what makes us human
is not Purpose

18. “We are least aware of what our minds do best. The most difficult things for machines
to emulate are those that are unconscious” (Moravec, Minsky et al)
Would we WANT machines to ‘emulate the unconscious’?

19. AI: Science Fiction

20. AI: Computer systems that turn information and data into KNOWLEDGE
(Demis Hassabis, CEO, DeepMind)
AI: MACHINES THAT CAN HEAR, SEE, SPEAK, LEARN… THINK?

21. Landscape of Human Competence (Moravec, Tegmark)

22. Technology is a great servant but a terrible master

23. Technology is a great servant but a terrible master

24. Data is the new Oil, and Artificial Intelligence is the new Electricity:
An irresistible, $50 Trillion gold-rush

25. Towards a totally networked world: we must start to include the ‘externalities’

26. The externalities of exponential technological growth must be INCLUDED in the digital economy, as well!

27. How will we make sure that
SOFTWARE (AI!) IS NOT CHEATING THE WORLD ?

28. How will we make sure that
SOFTWARE (AI!) IS NOT CHEATING THE WORLD ?

29. How will we make sure that
SOFTWARE (AI!) IS NOT CHEATING THE WORLD ?

30. Social media is a great example for what can go wrong when algorithms+profit rule over human concerns

31. Social media is a great example for what can go wrong when algorithms+profit rule over human concerns

32. Social media is a great example for what can go wrong when algorithms+profit rule over human concerns

33. Social media is a great example for what can go wrong when algorithms+profit rule over human concerns

35. #digitalethics

36. #digitalethics

39. Security? Data Protection? Privacy? Digital Rights?
Governance? Accountability? Regulation?
We are building a new META-INTELLIGENCE
Social Contract? Ethics? Values?
Sustainability?
“Technology can do great things, but it does not
WANT to do great things. It does not want anything.”Tim Cook, CEO, Apple October 25 2018

40. Digital Ethics: the difference between doing whatever technological progress will allow us to do,
and putting collective human flourishing first at all times

41. We need to invest as much into humanity as we invest into technology

45. Heaven or Hell - it’s up to us!

46. Heaven or Hell - it’s up to us!

47. All scientific and technological advancements must have HUMAN FLOURISHING as its core objective

48. Exponential technological progress will force us to expand our economic logic beyond the sole focus on GDP-growth

49. Technology is not WHAT we seek, but HOW we seek

50. We will not find real happiness* in the cloud, via an AI or on a screen!
* eudaemonia

51. For now, the biggest danger is not that machines will eliminate
us but that we become too much like them

52. Reductionism is detrimental for
humans, society and business!

53. The Future: awesome humans on-top of amazing technology

54. Thanks for
your time!