

“Now the British Standards Institute has issued a more official version aimed at helping designers create ethically sound robots.The document, BS8611 Robots and robotic devices,...

The slide-deck from today’s IDC CIO Summit in Frankfurt
…. here they are. More about the IDC CIO Summit Download the PDF 20MB : exponential-cio-idc-frankfurt-futurist-gerd-leonhard-public-web ... Read more
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Sep 2016
Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming. But Why Now? – NYTimes.com
“How will we know when the A.I. revolution has taken hold? A technology truly matures when it disappears. We don’t marvel at houses with electricity...
19
Sep 2016

What artificial intelligence will look like in 2030 (Harvard)
“Now is the time to consider the design, ethical, and policy challenges that AI technologies raise,” said Grosz. “If we tackle these issues now and...
17
Sep 2016

Robots will eliminate 6% of all US jobs by 2021, report says (good read via The Guardian)
“By 2021 a disruptive tidal wave will begin. Solutions powered by AI/cognitive technology will displace jobs, with the biggest impact felt in transportation, logistics, customer...
16
Sep 2016

My slides from Cognition (HfS) 2016 New York: digital ethics and the future of business
Here is the deck from today's fabulous event in New York. Thanks to Phil Fersht for inviting me! digital-ethics-and-the-future-of-business-cognition-ny-gerd-futurist-public-web 11MB PDF Update: here is the MP3...
16
Sep 2016

Technology Vs Humanity: Forbes intervista Gerd Leonhard. Nice Italian translation of my themes
“Tecnologia Vs Umanità: cosa ci aspetterà in futuro?Dici che l'umanità cambierà più nei prossimi 20 anni rispetto ai 300 anni precedenti. Perché pensi che questo...
15
Sep 2016

So this is what VIRTUALIZATION really means: Apple EarPods 2020 (have a laugh)
Just saw this on LinkedIn and thought it makes a great example for what I have come to call THE MEGASHIFTS — in particular, virtualization,...
13
Sep 2016

What are androrithms (Gerd Leonhard’s neologism from the Technology vs Humanity book)
One of the powerful key memes from my Technology vs Humanity book are androrithms. What does it actually mean? This is a key neologism in the book...
13
Sep 2016
Slides from my presentation at the London Futurists event Birkbeck College: Technology versus Humanity
Thanks for having me at this event. Here is the slide-deck: technology-versus-humanity-gerd-leonhard-presentation-futurist-london (20MB PDF) Futurist Gerd Leonhard's new book has the provocative title “Technology vs. Humanity: The coming clash...
11
Sep 2016

On Facebook’s ‘universal’ censorship rules (guest post by Rudy de Waele)
By Rudy De Waele Brilliant important statement, by editor-in-chief Espen Egil Hansen, of the Norwegian daily newspaper Aftenposten, in reply to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's demand to remove a picture...
10
Sep 2016

Will humanity need its own protection agency? Scenes and slides from the Technology vs Humanity book launch event in London
Thanks everyone for coming to this event – here is what happened :)) The actual slide deck from last night (PDF): technology-versus-humanity-futurist The book is now available...
10
Sep 2016

Audio and Video of my keynote at Mercedes Benz Vans Innovation Campus in Stuttgart Sept 7, 2016: the future is already here!
Event details. Thanks to Mercedes Benz Vans for asking me to speak and for making this video available me! This was a pretty amazing event,...
09
Sep 2016
The Next Industrial Revolution Is Coming and It Could Destroy Millions of Jobs #mademethink !
“I think the digital revolution is probably going to be as important and transformative as the industrial revolution. The main reason is machine intelligence, a...
07
Sep 2016

Does googling our medical symptoms make us sicker – and is software ‘cheating the world’?
“The web has the potential to increase anxieties of people who have little or no medical training,” White and Horvitz concluded, “especially when web search...
06
Sep 2016
Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology – Medium
“‘It may be a hundred years before a computer beats humans at Go — maybe even longer.” — New York Times, 1997“Master of Go Board Game Is Walloped by...
06
Sep 2016

Stanford University One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence 2016 Report (AI100)
“As a society, we are underinvesting resources in research on the societal implications of AI technologies. Private and public dollars should be directed toward interdisciplinary...
06
Sep 2016
How Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence
“The specifics of what the industry group will do or say — even its name — have yet to be hashed out. But the basic...
