Imagining the Digital Future Center

A majority of global technology experts say the likely magnitude of change in humans’ native capacities and behaviors as they adapt to artificial intelligence will be “deep and meaningful,” or even “dramatic” over the next decade. The results are based on a canvassing of a select group of experts between Dec 27, 2024, and Feb 1, 2025. Nearly 200 of the experts wrote full-length essays on the primary topic: Being Human in the Age of AI. An overwhelming majority of those who wrote essays focused their remarks on the potential problems they foresee.

Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center conducted a two-pronged study in late 2023 to develop an outlook for the impact of artificial intelligence on individuals and societal systems by 2040.