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Gerd Leonhard’s new super-keynote format: Warsaw Futurist of the year event, April 11, 2024 (video and slides)

In this powerful, 180-degree-LED-walls-location, cinemax-like keynote, I addressed the impact of artificial intelligence on education,

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Gerd Leonhard’s 2024 UNG HOAG Lecture: AI, Education & Humanity

Virtual LIVE Lecture by Gerd Leonhard, Global Futurist, Presented by the University of North Georgia • Learn more about how Artificial Intelligence will impact work,

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New Gerd Leonhard keynote: The Good Future: The doors aren’t closing – they’re opening!

Here is my entire keynote from Emerson Exchange EMEA 2024.

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Announcing Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s new brand: Public Thinker

I've been a futurist for over 20 years, thinking and talking about the future,

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Joshua Bengio: Reasoning through arguments against taking AI safety seriously (my take-aways)

Read University of Montreal Professor and Turing Award Winner JOSHUA BENGIO‘s AMAZING JULY 7,

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Open video to the government of Lanzarote and the Canary Islands – Design your preferred Future!

Some of you may know that we spend quite a bit of time in #lanzarote, The Canary Islands and that I have a live-streaming studio in Las Breñas. Many of my recent films, videos, and shows were filmed there, including the 2021 film www.thegoodfuturefilm.com. I like Lanzarote, and recently, I started to look at how my work as a futurist might be helpful there – hence this ‘open letter' i.e., open video on the future of Lanzarote, addressed to the local government officials, business leaders and politicians whose task it is to ensure that the island becomes ‘Future Fit'. I'd be delighted to contribute what I can, pro bono

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Education by 2050 – Transhumanism in education?

via Niamh Ancel

2050: Transhumanism in Education 2050: Future Universities and 2050: Future students

Among many futurists and academics,

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My keynote at the Investforum South Africa, in JoBurg and CPT, with Captions

This is my complete keynote from the Investment Forum 2024 in Johannesburg and Capetown,

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My recent presentation on Artificial General Intelligence: Videos, PDF, Slides and links

In this special livestreamed event I outlined my arguments that while IA (Intelligent Assistance) and some forms of narrow AI may well be quite beneficial to humanity, the idea of building AGIs i.e. 'generally intelligent digital entities' (as set forth by Sam Altman / #openai and others) represents an existential risk that imho should not be undertaken or self-governed by private enterprises, multi-national corporations or venture-capital funded startups.

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How Public Thinker and Futurist Gerd Leonhard uses Rask.ai to dub his videos in other languages, and expand his global reach

Read the full release by Maria Zhukova at RASK.AI

Inspiring a Multilingual Audience

Despite being a renowned expert with over 1,600 engagements in more than 50 countries,

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This is the future of AI – Interview and review of on my keynote speech at the Samsung Galaxy Event in Dublin

Via Image magazine Ireland

I was invited to speak at the Samsung Galaxy event in Dublin,

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Join me for the SEOUL FUTURE CONFERENCE on the October 23, 2024. AI: Gold Rush or Inflection Point?

Seoul Future Conference 2024

I'm excited to contribute a brand-new keynote on “AI and Humans: Confusion,

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Imagine a world where technology actually serves humanity: The Good Future Podcast Episode, made with Generative AI

We made this with Claude AI and Descript. The fake interviewer is called Alan,

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Why is behaviour change a better bet than techno-optimism (good read)

Good read here, on why we must balance technological achievements with good policy,

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NotebookLM makes a pretty a interesting podcast conversation based on my book Technology vs Humanity

“This an excerpt from the book “Technology vs.

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Androrithms – One of Gerd Leonhard’s key memes

Even ChatGPT has something to say about it:)

“Gerd Leonhard's concept of “Androrithms

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