Release date April 2, 2025 – A majority of global technology experts say the likely magnitude of change in humans’ native capacities and behaviors as they adapt to artificial intelligence (AI) will be “deep and meaningful,” or even “fundamental and revolutionary” over the next decade.

This new report covers the results from the Imagining the Digital Future Center’s 18th “Future of Digital Life” canvassing of a large set of global technology experts. These experts wrote detailed accounts predicting the future of humans in 2035.

Many global tech experts are concerned that our adoption of AI systems will negatively alter our sense of purpose and affect how we think, feel, act and relate to one another. Some hope for a positive influence on humans’ curiosity, decision-making and creativity.

Source: ITDF Webpage

The Millennium Project invited all those studying or working on the future issues of global governance of Artificial General Intelligence – AGI to share their judgements on the elements necessary for safe and productive global governance of AGI in our new online Real-Time Delphi

Phase 1 of the AGI study collected the views of 55 AGI leaders in the US, China, UK, the European Union, Canada, and Russia to the 22 questions below (the list of leaders follows the questions). Phase 1 research was financially supported by the Dubai Future Foundation and the Future of Life Institute:

Phase 2 is a Real-time Delphi Study that assessed 40 potential regulations for developers, governments, UN Multi-Stakeholder hybrid (Human-AI) organization, and users for trusted global and national governance of AGI. The RTDelphi is now closed and report is being prepared.

Source: Millennium Project

A New Age of Enlightenment? A New Threat to Humanity?

In a two-pronged Fall 2023 research initiative, Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center completed a U.S. national public opinion poll and a canvassing of more than 300 technology developers, business and policy leaders, researchers, analysts and advocates. It explores the potential impact of AI on individuals’ personal lives and on bedrock aspects of society, such as politics and elections, health care delivery, education and others.

The research findings reveal a wide range of views, with many expressing concerns over serious challenges to human well-being and worry over unprepared human systems, others looking optimistically to great advances in quality of life and a great number in the middle who are uncertain and uneasy about the changes ahead.

Source: ITDF Webpage