The Singularity Is Coming Soon. What Will The World Look Like In 2035?

The Singularity Is Coming Soon. What Will The World Look Like In 2035?

We already know that AI systems, driven by large language models and recommendation algorithms, can manipulate human behavior on a massive scale. It’s used to affect public opinion, spread misinformation, and even nudge people toward destructive and self-destructive actions, all without their awareness that machines are influencing their behaviors.

As AI systems become more advanced, they will have the capacity to exert even greater control over our choices, reducing human agency and potentially undermining the democratic process. Perhaps this is why historian Yuval Noah Harari suggests that we’re at the end of human history. “Not the end of history,” he emphasized in a recent interview with The Economist, “but the end of human history, as control is shifting to non-humans.”

As AI has come to dominate discussion around shaping the future, some futurists sense that no one in the conversation is talking about the simultaneous revolutions now occurring - in science, economics, climate, energy, demographics, geopolitics, politics, and culture and their vitally important impacts on what life will be like in 2035.

“It isn’t just AI that we should be concerned about,” notes Morris, in a recent Navigating the Future podcast. “During the next ten years, the world will go through numerous massive and highly unsettling shifts that will affect every aspect of society. The global economy will be transformed, radical new technologies will be disrupted, and the damage caused by climate change will worsen. The geopolitical situation will continue to be turbulent, with war and the threat of war. And politics everywhere will continue to be highly polarized.. The significance of this can hardly be overstated, because just about everything is changing."