David Barnhizer’s Substack

The following overview details a just released report from the Elon University Imagining the Digital Future Center. I just received BEING HUMAN IN 2035: How Are We Changing in the Age of AI? and am proud to have made a very small contribution to the material. I found the report to be fascinating, intellectually stimulating, and extremely informative on a diverse set of complex and challenging issues with which we must deal as the historically unique technologies of AI/Robotics transforms not only what we do but who we are. This Substack message contains an introductory explanation of the report and its aims, and the links by which the voluminous document can be accessed.

I am including immediately below a note I received from Lee Rainie, Director of the Elon Center, and it includes contact information as well as questions about how the Center could focus on subsequent issues relating to AI. Lee was founding Director of Internet and Technology research at the Pew Foundation Research Center, and before creating the Pew Internet Project, he was managing editor of the U.S. News & World Report. I am certain he would welcome your ideas on these critical issues.

Given the views and downloads I have seen on several of my postings I am aware that there is substantial interest in these matters and trust you will find the report of some interest.