Most respondents to an investigation by the University of Elon Imagining The Digital Future Center say they expect significant changes by 2035.
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Many global technology experts fear that our adoption of AI systems during the next decade negatively changes our sense of objective and will affect the way we think, feel, act and relate to each other. Some hope a positive influence on humans
Curiosity, decision -making and creativity
The majority of global technology experts say that the likely scale of change in the indigenous capacities and behaviors of humans, because they adapt to artificial intelligence (AI) will be “deep and significant”, even “dramatic” during the next decade, according to a new relationship of the imagination of Elon University The Digital Future Center (ITDF).
More than 300 experts answered questions about the impact of change they expect on 12 essential human features and capacities by 2035. They predicted that the change caused by the adoption of AI is likely to be mainly negative in the following nine areas:
- Social and emotional intelligence
- Capacity and will to think deep about complex concepts
- Trust the largely shared standards and values
- Confidence in their native capacities
- Empathy and application of moral judgment
- Mental well-being
- Agency sense
- Feeling of identity and goal
- Metacognition
The pluralities said they expect the change for humans by 2035 to be mainly positive in these areas:
- Curiosity and ability to learn
- Decision -making and problem solving
- Innovative thought and creativity
Overall, 61% of these experts said they expect the change related to the evolution of humans and AI systems will be either “deep and significant” or “fundamental and revolutionary”. Some 31% said that the change would be “moderate and notable” and 8% thought that the change would be “barely noticeable” or “without consequences”.
Respondents were also questioned about the overall IA impact on the essence of humans during the next decade. Some 50% said there will be changes for the better and the worst in fairly equal measurements, while 23% changes would be mainly for the worst and 16% thought it would mostly be for the best. Only 6% thought there would be little or no change overall.
These forecasts came on non -scientific solicitation (based on a non -random sample) carried out between December 27, 2024 and February 1, 2025. Details on the methodology and the sample can be found here:
“This report is a revealing and provocative declaration of the deep depth of the change that people suffer – often without really noticing at all – while we adapt to the deeper uses of advanced AI technologies,” said Janna Anderson, co -founder and senior researcher at ITDF. “Collectively, these experts call for humanity to think intentionally and carefully, taking wise measures now, so we do not sleep in the AI future that we never wanted and do not want.”
Nearly 200 of these experts wrote complete tests on the main subject: human being in the AI era. An overwhelming majority of them have focused their comments on the potential problems they provide. Although they have declared that the use of AI will be a boon for society in many important – and even vital considerations -, most are concerned about what they consider as a fragile future of certain fundamental and unique traits. At the same time, a plurality of the tests of these experts expresses glimmer of hope that humans always adaptable will find ways to prevail and even prosper.
“The convincing concern that many of these experts raise from various points of view are linked to the way in which the progress of AI could affect the ability of people and the will to advance the essential features of human beings,” said Lee Rainie, director The Imagining The Digital Future Center. “They predict that the AI systems will continue to encroach and go beyond certain fundamental human intelligences and that they fear that this is demoralized and debilitated for us.
A sample of convincing ideas of tests in “the future of being human”
- The first company of several dollars thieves will not add any human except the executives and the required board of directors, does not have offices, has no property and do not work entirely via AI and automated systems. – Paul Saffo
- “IAI advisers and companions will be more and more rivaled for the time, attention and allegiance of people. … Affinity blocks will form among the devotees of AI and among AI conscience objectors.” – Eric SAND
- “Individuals will be faced with a brutal choice between” remaining classic humans “, which rely on innate biological faculties, or adopting a technological increase to improve or replace certain capacities. – David Vivancos
- “Proof of humanity” will be necessary: ”We can find it difficult to distinguish artificial and real personalities. – Cerf
- The platforms of autonomous weapons fed by AI will considerably exceed human fighters on the battlefields. The war will be more violent and deadly and “the civil dead will considerably exceed the deaths of combatants”. In addition, “a single madman or an angry and alienated adolescent could bring down civilization with their scientific project”. – Paul Saffo
- AI could redefine the meaning of authenticity in art. “The AI will be both the marble and the chisel, the brush and the canvas, the camera and the frame” co-creating the “neosynthetic”. »» – Peter Lunenfeld
- Things will be smarter than us: “Instead of conceiving” human in the loop “policies to prevent the AI from running, we will develop” Ai-in-the-Boop “policies to help humans very fallible in learning, thinking and creating more effectively and more safe.” – Stephen Downes
- “Self-inflicted ia dementia” will result from atrophy of human cognitive capacities due to excessive dependence on AI systems. – Ken Grady
- “Empathy outsourced via altruism based on agents: AI will automate acts of kindness, emotional support, care and funding funding funds.” – Tracey follows
- The “probability matrices” will replace traditional decision -making because the probabilities of success calculated by AI will inform each life choice. “And a factor in the social, political and economic landscape of 2035 will be the decline of literacy due to the shepherd of the agent.” – Barry Chudakov
- Most AI will be “mediocrity engines” that standardize information when you are looking for knowledge in a way that lacks details, sparkles and stimulates creativity; Some inspiring AIs will associate with creative people. – Alf Rehn
- Social robots will be “training wheels” for our social fitness. Boots could keep our interpersonal skills lively: “If we cannot live without bots, can they be transformed into” training wheels “or the equivalent of treadmills at the gymnasium, improving our fitness of social interaction?” – Henning Schulzrinne
- A new human “illumination” could start due to digital twins and other AI agents with up to six hours of digital tasks every day and allowing humans to “move this energy to the spiritual, emotional and experiential aspects of life”. – Rabia Yasmeen
- Offering humans a perspective on the scale of the universe on almost everything: “It will be a dawn of a new illumination that widens our perspectives beyond the individual and the species to a global perspective and perhaps on the scale of the universe.” – Ray Schroeder
- Will this seem ironic by 2035, or could it really materialize in the next decade? “The best -selling book of 2035 will be” what was human “and it will be written by an AI. Finally, understand the puzzle of what it means to be human. »» – Paul Saffo