Gerd Leonhard

February 11, 2024

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=vo3Jb4t4pKw&si=u6VDrbYcL6EJls7M Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business)
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January 30, 2024

“technology is a key to making the world better. But first we must describe the world as we wish it to be—the problems we wish to solve in the public interest, and in accordance with the values and rights that advance human dignity, equality, freedom, privacy, health, and happiness. And we must insist that the leaders of institutions that represent us—large and small—use technology in ways that reflect what is good for individuals and society, and not just what enriches technocrats.

“technology is a key to making the world better. But first we must describe the world as we wish it to be—the problems we wish to solve in the public interest, and in accordance with the values and rights that advance human dignity, equality, freedom, privacy, health, and happiness. And we must insist that the leaders of institutions t...
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January 10, 2024

What's ahead in 2024? #futurist Gerd on the 3 Revolutions: Technology/AI, Green/Energy and PURPOSE

What's ahead in 2024? #futurist Gerd on the 3 Revolutions: Technology/AI, Green/Energy and PURPOSE https://youtu.be/aloifVNcQGI Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business)
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December 31, 2023

O futurista Gerd Leonhard desenha “o bom futuro

https://lidermagazine.sapo.pt/o-futurista-gerd-leonhard-desenha-o-bom-futuro/
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August 9, 2023

The New Prophets of Empathy | Leo Kim

https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-new-prophets-of-empathy-kim Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business)
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August 3, 2023

Authoritarians are on the march from TheEconomist

Authoritarians are on the march from TheEconomisthttps://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/08/03/authoritarians-are-on-the-march Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business)
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July 24, 2023

“In sum, AI acting on its own cannot induce human extinction in any of the ways that extinctions have happened in the past. Appeals to the competitive nature of evolution or previous instances of a more intelligent species causing the extinction of a less intelligent species reflect a common mischaracterization of evolution by natural selection.”

“In sum, AI acting on its own cannot induce human extinction in any of the ways that extinctions have happened in the past. Appeals to the competitive nature of evolution or previous instances of a more intelligent species causing the extinction of a less intelligent species reflect a common mischaracterization of evolution by natural ...
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July 15, 2023

The Last Word on AI and the Atom Bomb | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/last-word-ai-atom-bomb/ Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business)
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July 9, 2023

Lego

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/07/06/a-lego-lovers-guide-to-preparing-for-the-ai-age Although it is hard to strip out the exact contribution of digitisation, since 2018 Lego’s sales have almost doubled, to more than $9bn, outpacing those of Mattel and Hasbro, its main rivals. In 2022 visits to its online portal rose by 38%. It...
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June 27, 2023

“Advances in neuroscience are taking us closer to a reality like this one, where individuals, companies, and governments will be able to hack and track our brains in ways that fundamentally affect our freedom to understand, shape, and define ourselves”

“Advances in neuroscience are taking us closer to a reality like this one, where individuals, companies, and governments will be able to hack and track our brains in ways that fundamentally affect our freedom to understand, shape, and define ourselves” 'Cognitive Liberty' Is the Human Right We Need to Talk About https://time.com/628922...
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June 14, 2023

Hey ! Anton and Gerd

Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business)
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June 14, 2023

Europe’s AI Regulation: What to Know

Europe’s AI Regulation: What to Knowhttps://time.com/6287116/european-union-artificial-intelligence-law/ Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business)
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June 1, 2023

A new AI agency ?

https://theelders.cmail20.com/t/y-e-ptjjilt-jyukikkdul-jl/ Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business)
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May 31, 2023

Fluff fueled by ai

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/opinion/artificial-intelligence-thinking-minds-concentration.html Marcela Martin, BuzzFeed’s president, encapsulated my next worry nicely when she told investors, “Instead of generating 10 ideas in a minute, A.I. can generate hundreds of ideas in a second.” She meant that as a good thing, but is it? I...
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May 24, 2023

Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/elon-musk-ron-desantis-2024-twitter/674149/ Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business)
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May 21, 2023

The Problem With Counterfeit People - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/problem-counterfeit-people/674075/ Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business)
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May 10, 2023

The deal has changed !

https://www.wired.com/story/should-you-get-paid-for-teaching-a-chatbot-to-do-your-job/ Let’s imagine you called me with a problem, and I solved it,” says Danielle Li, an economist at MIT’s Sloan School of Management who coauthored the study with MIT PhD candidate Lindsey Raymond and Erik Brynjolfsson, director Stanford’s Digital Econom...
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May 9, 2023

IBM and AI jobs

https://futurism.com/the-byte/ibm-replacing-humans-ai In an interview with Bloomberg, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said that tech company is slowing or suspending hiring for any jobs that could possibly be done by AI — including, somehow, human resources and other non-customer-facing roles that amount to roughly 26,000 positions. "I could ea...
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May 8, 2023

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=WDS0gSBTArg&feature=share Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business)
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May 7, 2023

IBM could replace 7,800 jobs with artificial intelligence, CEO says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/02/ai-jobs-takeover-ibm/ IBM could replace 7,800 jobs with artificial intelligence, CEO says Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business)
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April 25, 2023

We’re all feeding the AI

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/24/ai-chatgpt-blogs-web-writing-training-data Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business)
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April 11, 2023

AI Risks

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3687211/10-reasons-to-worry-about-generative-ai.html Information is not knowledge AIs are particularly good at mimicking the kind of intelligence that takes years to develop in humans. When a human scholar is able to introduce an obscure 17th-century artist or write new music in an almost forgotten ren...
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April 9, 2023

playthings. As Jason Parham wrote for WIRED this week, we also need to seriously consider how generative AI can recapture and repurpose ugly stereotypes”

“The rapid advances in generative AI may prove dangerous in an era when social media has been weaponized and deepfakes are propagandists' playthings. As Jason Parham wrote for WIRED this week, we also need to seriously consider how generative AI can recapture and repurpose ugly stereotypes” AI Video Generators Are Nearing a Crucial Tip...
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April 6, 2023

My latest YouTube short

Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business)
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April 5, 2023

How Will Generative AI Disrupt Video Platforms?

https://hbr.org/2023/03/how-will-generative-ai-disrupt-video-platforms Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business)
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April 4, 2023

AI Open letter

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvppm/the-open-letter-to-stop-dangerous-ai-race-is-a-huge-mess We wrote a whole paper in late 2020 (Stochastic Parrots, published in 2021) pointing out that this head-long rush to ever larger language models without considering risks was a bad thing. But the risks and harms have never been about ‘too po...
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April 2, 2023

AI Pause

https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/a-misleading-open-letter-about-sci Real harm 2: AI tools exploit labor and shift power to companies. The real impact of AI is likely to be subtler: AI tools will shift power away from workers and centralize it in the hands of a few companies. A prominent example is generative AI for creating art. Compa...
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March 29, 2023

Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute

https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/ Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,[3] and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we dev...
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March 29, 2023

“China’s approach is not improvised, but systematic and ideological. Deng Xiaoping urged China to “hide your capacities, bide your time”. But Mr Xi wants to reshape the post-1945 world order. . The “Global Security Initiative” is about opposing efforts to contain China’s military threat; the “Global Development Initiative” promotes China’s economic-growth model, which deals with autocratic states without imposing conditions. “Global Civilisation” argues that Western advocacy of universal human rights, in Xinjiang and elsewhere, is a new kind of colonialism.”

“China’s approach is not improvised, but systematic and ideological. Deng Xiaoping urged China to “hide your capacities, bide your time”. But Mr Xi wants to reshape the post-1945 world order. . The “Global Security Initiative” is about opposing efforts to contain China’s military threat; the “Global Development Initiative” promotes Chi...
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March 19, 2023

latest gerd leonhard slides

Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business)
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