New video interview Futurist / Humanist Gerd Leonhard on Digital Happiness: Technology vs. Humanity?

Thanks to Sogeti for making this video available

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You will lose your job to a robot—and sooner than you think (a rather dark view but… worth reading), via MotherJones

“Until we figure out how to fairly distribute the fruits of robot labor, it will be an era of mass joblessness and mass poverty.”You will lose your job to a robot—and sooner than you thinkhttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/you-will-lose...

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Why AI Is the ‘New Electricity’ – Knowledge@Wharton

““AI is the new electricity,” said Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera and an adjunct Stanford professor who founded the Google Brain Deep Learning Project, in a keynote speech at the AI Frontiers conference that was held this past weekend in Sili...

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Gerd Leonhard’s presentation at LaFutura in Dubai: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity

Here is my deck from LaFutura 2017 in Dubai, on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity La Futura AI and the future of humanity Dubai Public version low res

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Resisting Reduction: a must-read manifesto by Joi Ito

“Nature’s ecosystem provides us with an elegant example of a complex adaptive system where myriad “currencies” interact and respond to feedback systems that enable both flourishing and regulation. This collaborative model–rather than a model of ...

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