“In recent decades, research on the inner workings of the brain has helped to resolve the nature-nurture debate—and has dealt a further blow to the idea of free will. Brain scanners have enabled us to peer inside a living person’s skull, revealing intricate networks of neurons and allowing scientists to reach broad agreement that these networks are shaped by both genes and environment. But there is also agreement in the scientific community that the firing of neurons determines not just some or most but all of our thoughts, hopes, memories, and dreams.”

There’s No Such Thing as Free Will
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/
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“There will be very real disruption,” he says. “Jobs will be taken away and those people need to be taken care of. People have floated the idea of universal basic income, of negative income tax, of training programs. We have an obligation to figure out how to help people cope with the rapidly changing nature of technology.””

AI2 CEO Oren Etzioni envisions an artificial intelligence ‘utopia’ - GeekWire
https://www.geekwire.com/2016/ai2-ceo-oren-etzioni-envisions-artificial-intelligence-utopia/
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“A third of people will post on Facebook and other social media after they die

In 10 years time, Facebook won’t just be Facebook, it will be a virtual reality system, and personal avatars will continue to post after a person is dead - and even keep wandering around VR worlds mimicking the person.

Companies like ETER9, Terasem and Lifenaut will provide the type of software where people can download themselves and the amount they want to contribute to social media, giving family members and loved ones still alive a sense that the deceased is still present in their lives.”

Five Science and Technology Predictions for the Next 10 Years
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“Boston Consulting Group predicts that by 2025, up to a quarter of jobs will be replaced by either smart software or robots. Gartner, a technology research firm, ramps that estimate up and predicts that one third of all jobs will be eliminated by 2025, while University of Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne say a grand total of 47 percent of US jobs will be automated by 2033. Worried that your job is on the chopping block? You’re probably right.”

You Can’t Talk About Robots Without Talking About Basic Income
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“Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking are among 8,600 people who have signed an open letter about the potential dangers of AI. The letter describes the need for safeguards to ensure that AI is positive rather than neutral in respect to purpose, but it also calls for the maximization of the societal benefit of AI. In short, it calls for social responsibility.”

You Can’t Talk About Robots Without Talking About Basic Income
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