“There is something worse and more dangerous than AI”: Futurist makes predictions for 2033 and 2043

In an interview with the Have a Nice Future podcast, futurist Noah Raford, who once worked for the UAE government, talked about the challenges humanity will face in the next 10-20 years.

According to Raford, AI is not as important a social problem as, for example, the greenhouse effect, obesity or diabetes, alcohol or drug addiction. But today there is a heated debate around artificial intelligence because it has entered the lives of each of us.

“The next decade will be a defining moment as we will have to deal with climate change, economic collapse, government collapse, large-scale populist movements and even potential revolution. We need to fundamentally reassess what we mean as a society.” says the expert.

He believes people will re-evaluate concepts like “economy” and “society”.

“What kind of world do we really want to build? And this conversation will probably be brutal. It will take different forms in different countries. But this will be the birth of what several versions or iterations of human society will look like in the next decade,” – stressed Noah Raford.

Even today, the futurist sees signs that the overall system of world order is “dissolving, cracks appearing.” But don’t despair, says Raford, because “we have extraordinarily productive tools at our fingertips to try and build new businesses, create new companies and societies, and new ways of doing things.”

In an interview, the expert said that in the next 2-3 years, many businesses, tools, sources of finance will be created based on artificial intelligence, this should give people hope, inspire and inspire enthusiasm.

“We can really do something that will definitely change our lives, even if it doesn’t save the world,” he said.

The futurist is more afraid of a new large-scale epidemic than of AI. Citing a recent study by the Development Institute, he said that the probability of a new large-scale pandemic occurring in the next 10 years or the next 20 years is almost 25 percent (50% probability). Raford says we can’t control things like Covid.

“Most of the evidence I’ve seen comes from the melting Siberian tundra, where previously dormant 15,000-year-old viruses are “dissolving” and will be released into the wild within the next 10 or 20 years,” the speaker said. shared. “Humanity will sooner or later face a new infectious disease or a virus from the tundra in Siberia, and we have no idea what it is. All the biologists whose reports I’ve read are terribly afraid of it.”