The future of AI, Global Collaboration, New Economic Logic (Westernacher Group) “In our latest interview, we had the privilege of sitting down with Gerd Leonhard, a leading futurist renowned for his captivating keynote presentations and best selling book, Technology vs. Humanity, The Coming Clash Between Man and Machine. With over two decades of experience, ... Read more
NEW: The complete talk: 🌍 *The Future Is Now—Are You Ready for the Great Reset?* We're living through a seismic shift in human history—where geopolitics, technology, climate, and purpose-economics are colliding at lightning speed. The world we thought we understood just a decade ago? Gone. From self-driving cars in San Francisco to a continent-wide therapy session called The United States of Europe, ... Read more
Generated with Google Notebook LM — pretty powerful stuff The document below, from 2022, a policy paper by futurist Gerd Leonhard, examines how Europe can proactively shape its future amidst rapid technological advancements. It argues that the COVID-19 pandemic had accelerated digital transformation, necessitating a re-evaluation of European values and priorities. The paper advocates for a new “operating system” ... Read more
Here's a briefing document summarising the key themes and ideas from the provided sources, with direct quotes where relevant. Briefing Document: The Existential Importance of Ethics in a Technological Future Executive Summary: Futurist Gerd Leonhard argues that humanity is at a critical juncture, facing exponential technological advancements that demand a renewed focus on ethics and human values. ... Read more
Here is a 5* brilliant talk by the fabulous Bruce Schneier at the RSAC Summit “AI is altering fundamental work of democracy globally: campaigning, voting, writing legislation, enforcing policy, how courts are run and more. Many of the changes will make democracies more responsive to the will of the people, involve citizens ever more deeply in governance, ... Read more
I generated this on ChatGPT – pretty amazing! “The concept of the post-knowledge economy, introduced by futurists William Halal and Gerd Leonhard, envisions a shift from a traditional knowledge-based economy to one where human creativity, emotional intelligence, and unique, intuitive skills are central to value creation. As automation and artificial intelligence take over many knowledge-based tasks, ... Read more
“This an excerpt from the book “Technology vs. Humanity” by Gerd Leonhard (2016!!) a futurist, which argues that we must be careful about the rapid development of technology, particularly artificial intelligence, and its impact on our humanness. The book examines the potential benefits and risks of technologies such as digitization, automation, virtualization, and robotics. ... Read more
Read University of Montreal Professor and Turing Award Winner JOSHUA BENGIO‘s AMAZING JULY 7, 2024 POST HERE (the graphics , stats and images were added by me). If this floats your boar be sure to join me Thurs/Fri this week for my livestream sessions on AGI:) This is brilliant stuff – ... Read more
This is an experiment: My content production team (and me) used Claude to come up with the basic text in a interview-like format see https://futuristgerd.com/genAIJune, then we removed the host questions and did a few more text edits, then used HeyGen to generate audio and video with my avatar, then used a cool image (The Good Future stage background) made by DallE / ChatGPT and animated it with Runway:)) I'd love to know what you think – ... Read more
We made this with Claude AI and Descript. The fake interviewer is called Alan, and the answers are, well, in my voice:) The AI Script was heavily edited by my team (real humans). If I could just teach the ‘interviewer' had to say GERD not geeerrrrd (like nerd) Would love your feedback on this. ... Read more
via Irish Management Institute (PDF download). Link to IMI's site. Two locations, two masterclass presentations, two Irish cities – Dublin on the 7th of October 2023 and Cork on the 9th of October. Gerd presented his insights on the next ten years hosted by the Irish Management Institute. Shifting Industries and Paradigms – Gerd began ... Read more
Here's a quick experiment using Generative AI tools such as RunwayML and Descript. Let me know how you like it:)))
For the Estoril Conferences perspective, it’s important to position the main theme this year Rebalancing Our World: A Call to The Purpose Generation and topics we are bringing for this year agenda For Planet, For People, For Peace. Gerd Leonhard will be connected in the People agenda in the panel debate on What To Do Now That We Have The Power To Reach Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere? where we want to engage in a conversation focused on how to bring purpose for technology design and use it for the good, what do we need to do to change in the next 10 years and protect our species, what future do we want for the next generations (our sons), challenges with regard to ethical issues ranging from privacy concerns to cybercrime, to bring more humane future leaders and a more peaceful future.
gerd leonhard and bill halal podcast on speaking across differences
Futurist Gerd Leonhard joined Jacy Nova to discuss what are some of the biggest challenges humanity is facing today.
It was great to be invited by ENTEL and the Catholic University of Chile for this virtual talk. Right now many people are worried and apprehensive about the future and there's a strong perception that the Future will be bad. I think this is understandable but I'm much more excited about the future.
The future is not something that just happens to us - it is something we create every single day, by action or by inaction. Whether the future is good or bad is entirely up to us. As we see the future, so we act, as we act so we become!
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what’s happening with efficiency, and how – due to the disruptive forces of Covid19 and this extraordinary acceleration towards digital that it has also created- many organisations have started shifting from the traditional focus on using technology to increase efficiency and productivity towards a new pursuit of resilience, […]
“Technology can do great things, but it does not WANT to do great things – it does not want anything” says Apple's CEO Tim Cook (a quote I have often used in my talks). Technology is a tool not a purpose – see my ‘carpenter and the hammer example' (video). “Both biotech and AI are […]
Now Live on YouTube! This is one of my best keynotes on the Covid-19 “Infodemic” and what it means for the future of (social) media and technology regulation. What challenges to our economic and social models may emerge? I also outline my key ‘definitive future’ foresights such as the End of Oil and Global Decarbonization, […]